Nutanix, Inc.

Pulkit Yadav

Supreeth Srinivasan

Raghu Prasad Rapole

Anil Kumar Boggarapu

Miao Cui

Sudish Kumar Sah

Aroosh Sohi

Gaurav Poothia

Rahul Paul

Srinivas Bandi Ramesh Babu

Jaspal Singh Dhillon

Raja Prathyush Kumar Thota

In one embodiment, a system for managing communication connections in a virtualization environment includes (1) a first host machine implementing a virtualization environment based on a first platform, wherein the first host machine includes a first hypervisor, at least one virtual machine, and one or more virtual infrastructure elements and (2) a virtual disk including a plurality of storage devices. A management module for the system may perform steps to convert the first host machine to a second platform by installing (on the first host machine) a second hypervisor associated with the second platform, disabling the first hypervisor, capturing a configuration describing elements of a virtual infrastructure associated with the first hypervisor, registering the captured configuration with the second hypervisor, creating elements of the captured configuration in the context of the second platform and in association with the second hypervisor, and then enabling the second hypervisor.

Hypervisor conversion

A system and method include receiving, by a migration tool of a virtual computing system, an indication for hypervisor conversion for converting a hypervisor on nodes in a cluster of the virtual computing system from a first hypervisor type to a second hypervisor type. The system and method also include converting, one at a time, the hypervisor on each of the nodes from the first hypervisor type to the second hypervisor type in response to the indication, including converting virtual machines on each of the nodes for running on the second hypervisor type. The hypervisor and the virtual machines are converted on one node before starting conversion of the hypervisor and the virtual machines on another node, and the virtual machines of the one node are migrated from the one node before conversion and the migrated virtual machines remain operational during conversion of the hypervisor on the one node.

System and method for reducing downtime during hypervisor conversion

A system and method include assigning, by an identifier management system of a virtual computing system, a hypervisor agnostic identifier to a virtual machine. The system and method also include creating a mapping of the hypervisor agnostic identifier to a first hypervisor specific identifier of the virtual machine, including storing the mapping in a database, and updating the mapping in response to a second hypervisor specific identifier being associated with the virtual machine. The updated mapping maps the hypervisor agnostic identifier to the second hypervisor specific identifier. The system and method further include making available the hypervisor agnostic identifier for use by other elements of the virtual computing system instead of the first hypervisor specific identifier and the second hypervisor specific identifier. The first hypervisor specific identifier and the second hypervisor specific identifier are hypervisor specific, while the hypervisor agnostic identifier is not hypervisor specific.

System and method for preserving entity identifiers

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Bengaluru, India

Pulkit Yadav