Vmware, Inc.

Jeffrey Hu

Mukund Gunti

Olivier Alain Cremel

Patrick William Penzias Dirks

Aravinda Haryadi

Mayur Bhosle

Kiran Kamath

Saurav Sen

Sandhya Kunnatur

Georgi Staykov

Siddharth Gandhi

Uday Kiran Erukulla

Prashanth Suresh

Abhay Manandhar

System and method for deploying software-defined data centers (SDDCs) in target computing environments uses a software-defined data center (SDDC) bootstrap service running in a virtualization software of a host computer in a target computing environment to deploy a plurality of management components of the SDDC being deployed in the target computing environment. After the management components of the SDDC have been deployed in the target computing environment, the SDDC is configured to a desired state by an SDDC configuration service running in one of the management components of the SDDC using an SDDC desired state specification.

System and method for deploying a software-defined data center based on desired state specification from virtualization software

A virtualized computing system includes a plurality of hosts, each of which is configured with a virtualization software for supporting execution of virtual machines therein. A method of managing a configuration of a system service in the virtualized computing system includes upon receiving an API call to operate on a configuration object for the system service that is backed by a configuration schema of the system service, updating a database in accordance with the configuration schema to update or store the configuration of the system service, so that the system service executes with the configuration stored in the database.

Schema-based classification of data on a system

A method of managing configurations of a plurality of system services, including a first system service and a second system service, in each of a plurality of hosts, wherein each of the hosts is configured with a virtualization software for supporting execution of virtual machines therein includes steps of: upon receiving an application programming interface (API) call to apply configurations of the system services defined in a desired configuration file to the system services, parsing the desired configuration file to identify a first configuration for the first system service and a second configuration for the second system service, and storing the first and second configurations in accordance with a configuration schema defined for the first and second system services, wherein the first system service executes with the stored first configuration applied thereto and the second system service executes with the stored second configuration applied thereto.

Managing configurations of system services running in a cluster of hosts by managing lifecycle of virtualization software

An image of a virtualization software in a plurality of hosts is installed or upgraded by performing the steps of: in response to a user input, generating a software specification that specifies a desired state of the virtualization software; based on the software specification, preparing a desired image of the virtualization software by retrieving metadata of the desired state of the virtualization software and determining components that make up the desired state of the virtualization software; and instructing each of the hosts to install the desired image of the virtualization software or upgrade a current image of the virtualization software to the desired image of the virtualization software. One of the components defines a set of payloads for a core kernel of the virtualization software.

Desired state model for managing lifecycle of virtualization software

An image of a virtualization software in a plurality of hosts is installed or upgraded by performing the steps of: in response to a user input, generating a software specification that specifies a desired state of the virtualization software; based on the software specification, preparing a desired image of the virtualization software and storing the desired image of the virtualization software in a storage location accessible to the hosts; and instructing each of the hosts to install the desired image of the virtualization software or upgrade a current image of the virtualization software to the desired image of the virtualization software.

An image of a virtualization software in a plurality of hosts is installed or upgraded by performing the steps of: in response to a user input, generating a software specification that specifies a base image and an add-on image; retrieving metadata of the base image and metadata of the add-on image; generating a desired image of the virtualization software based on the metadata of the base image and the metadata of the add-on image; and instructing each of the hosts to install the desired image of the virtualization software or upgrade a current image of the virtualization software to the desired image of the virtualization software.

Methods and apparatus to manage configuration of policy-based hypervisors are disclosed. An example method includes generating, by executing an instruction with a processor, a specification for a target configuration of a host based on a policy-based profile, the policy-based profile describing a source configuration of a source host at a virtualization software level; applying, by executing an instruction with the processor, the specification to the target configuration; and in response to an update to the policy-based profile, updating, by executing an instruction with the processor, the target configuration to place the host in compliance with the updated policy-based profile.

Policy-based hypervisor configuration management

Systems and techniques are described for generating canonical representations of JSON documents. One of the techniques includes receiving a first JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) document, wherein the first document includes one or more JSON objects, and wherein each JSON object includes one or more name-value pairs; generating a first canonical representation of the first JSON document, wherein generating the first canonical representation comprises: removing each non-significant whitespace character and non-significant line ending from the first document, for each JSON object, sorting the name-value pairs included in the JSON object lexicographically, and converting one or more instances of a number value type in the first document into a standardized representation of a double data type; and generating a first digital signature for the first JSON document using the first canonical representation.

Generating canonical representations of JSON documents

At least one target configuration of a host at a virtualization software level is automatically assembled based on a source configuration. A policy-based profile describing the source configuration is processed. A configuration specification describing the target configuration is automatically created, based on the policy-based profile describing the source configuration. The configuration specification is automatically applied to target configurations, such that the target configurations are compliant with the policy-based profile.

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Jeffrey Hu