Vmware, Inc.

Kratos Integral Holdings, LLC

Richard Monteleone

Brian Alfred Williams

Sean Bryan

Kathleen McDonough

David Springer

Timothy Binkley-Jones

David Wilson

Lori Marshall

Phillip Smith

Luis Fernando Gomez

Stuart Daughtridge

James Pritchett

Christopher Boyd

Scott Kubina

Daniel De La Rosa

Mark Trynor

Frank Sandoval

Greg Quiggle

Conventionally, software-based services that utilize satellites are manually and painstakingly configured, provisioned, activated, and calibrated, because the complexity and variability of satellite links prevent automated and scalable service orchestration. Accordingly, systems and processes are disclosed for automated and scalable orchestration of services that utilize satellite links. In response to a service request, comprising a service definition for an end-to-end service, parameter(s) of a satellite link that satisfies the service definition may be calculated. These parameter(s) may be used to select a configuration for a satellite-network service chain, comprising a plurality of virtual network functions, from a service catalog. The satellite-network service chain may then be instantiated, within a cloud infrastructure, using the selected configuration. This process may be implemented in a software-defined network controller which dynamically manages the resources and configuration of the service chain.

Dynamic management of software-defined service chains for satellite communications

Methods and apparatus to manage and execute action in computing environments are disclosed. An example method includes determining an identifier of a type of a computing resource identified in a received request, processing a set of stored adapters to determine an adapter associated with the identifier, determining an action associated with adapter, and presenting a user interface including a user selectable identification of the action.

Methods and apparatus to manage and execute actions in computing environments based on a routing path

Methods and apparatus to manage and execute action in computing environments are disclosed. An example system includes a virtual machine resource platform to host a virtual compute node and a resource manager to: in response to a user request associated with the virtual compute node: determine a type of the virtual compute node; determine if an installed adapter identifies a type associated with the type of the virtual compute node; and when the adapter identifies the type associated with the type of the virtual compute node, present a user selectable identification of the adapter.

Methods and apparatus to manage and execute actions in computing environments based on a type of virtual compute node

Methods and apparatus to manage and execute action in computing environments are disclosed. An example system includes a virtual machine resource platform to host a virtual compute node; and a resource manager to: install an interface to receive an adapter configured to initiate an action that operates on the virtual compute node, install the adapter by processing an adapter definition to identify an action specified by the adapter, trigger an alert based on collected data associated with the virtual compute node, in response to the alert, trigger the action to be executed using a parameter extracted from the collected data, and execute the action to operate on the compute node.

Methods and apparatus to manage and execute actions in computing environments using a graphical user interface

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Richard Monteleone