Vmware, Inc.

Force10 Networks, Inc.

Rahul Kulkarni

Raj Yavatkar

Thayumanavan Sridhar

Krishnamurthy Subramanian

Mukund Gunti

Shreekanth Ankala

Thirumalesh Reddy

Sreekantha Indireddy

Vishnu Sekhar

Donald Newell

Hardware management systems for disaggregated rack architectures in virtual server rack deployments are disclosed herein. An example apparatus to manage disaggregated physical hardware resources in a physical rack includes a hardware management system to discover disaggregated physical hardware resources in the physical rack and generate a listing of the disaggregated physical hardware resources, and a physical resource manager to generate a composed resource based on resources from the listing of the disaggregated physical hardware resources, the hardware management system to manage the composed resource.

Hardware management systems for disaggregated rack architectures in virtual server rack deployments

An example method to install a hardware management system on a management switch includes in response to a power-on event of a management switch, executing a boot loader on the management switch to boot an operating system on the management switch. The example method also includes obtaining from a virtual imaging appliance in communication with the management switch a uniform resource locator of a network-accessible location of installer software to install the hardware management system. The virtual imaging appliance is to configure a physical rack of hardware for use as a virtual server rack. The hardware management system is to manage the hardware for use in the virtual server rack.

Methods and apparatus to configure hardware management systems for use in virtual server rack deployments for virtual computing environments

A network device such as a router or a switch is comprised of a control module and a plurality of physical line cards. The control module includes a control processor virtual machine, a plurality of route processing virtual machines and one or more instances of a line card virtual machine. The line card virtual machine operates to receive routing information base update information, to modify the routing information base according to the update information and to update each instance of a plurality of forwarding information bases included on each of the physical line cards.

Virtual network device architecture

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Sunnyvale, CA, United States of America

Rahul Kulkarni