Vmware, Inc.

Kalyan Devarakonda

Praveen Tirumanyam

Ivaylo Radoslavov Radev

Georgi Lyubomirov Dimitrov

Lipsa Nayak

Narasimha Gopal Gorthi

A method of managing configurations of SDDCs of a tenant includes the steps of: retrieving a base configuration document, a first supplemental configuration document of a first SDDC, and a second supplemental configuration document of a second SDDC; issuing, to the first SDDC, a first instruction to update a running configuration state thereof according to the base configuration document and the first supplemental configuration document; and issuing, to the second SDDC, a second instruction to update a running configuration state thereof according to the base configuration document and the second supplemental configuration document, wherein the base configuration document includes settings of first configuration properties common across all of the tenant's SDDCs, the first supplemental configuration document includes first settings of second configuration properties only applicable to the first SDDC, and the second supplemental configuration document includes second settings of the second configuration properties only applicable to the second SDDC.

Desired state management of software-defined data centers with a plurality of desired state configurations

A method of managing a desired state of a software-defined data center (SDDC) includes the steps of: receiving an original desired state document that includes configurations and associated criteria for applying the configurations; evaluating a first criteria to determine that a first configuration associated with the first criteria is applicable to components of the SDDC; evaluating a second criteria to determine that a second configuration associated with the second criteria is not applicable to any components of the SDDC; creating an updated desired state of the SDDC, as a result of the evaluating of the first and second criteria, the updated desired state including the first configuration and excluding the second configuration; and applying the updated desired state to the SDDC.

Method for criteria-based desired state management

Drift is automatically detected in configuration of services running in a management appliance of a software-defined data center. A method of automatically detecting drift includes: in response to a notification of a change in a configuration of a first service enabled for proactive drift detection, transmitting a first request to compute drift in the configuration of the first service to a plug-in of the first service, the first request including the change in the configuration of the first service; periodically, at designated time intervals, transmitting a second request to compute drift in the configuration of a second service enabled for passive drift detection, to the plug-in of the second service, the second request including a current state of the configuration of the second service; and notifying a desired state management service of the computed drift in the configuration of the first and second services.

Growing community of inventors

Bengaluru, India

Kalyan Devarakonda