Vmware, Inc.

Sushil Shripal Munot

Emily Hong Xu

Sridevi Ravuri

Michael Lee Hall, Jr

Rajesh Agarwalla

Yateendra Kulkarni

Venkat Deep Rajan

Prashanth Suresh

Rucha Rajurkar

Andrew T Chin

Shyama Sankar Vellore

Hasan Mahmood

Examples described herein include systems and methods for parallel upgrades of multiple hosts within an on-premises, multi-rack software-defined data center ('SDDC'). Upgrade instructions can be provided to a point-of-presence (“POP”) virtual machine (“VM”) of the SDDC, which can call an application programming interface (“API”) of a pod service executing on a control plane VM in the SDDC. For example, the pod service can generate a set of instructions for performing cluster upgrades in parallel. In one example, the pod service provides the instructions to a lifecycle management service executing on a VM of the SDDC, such as the control plane VM. In some examples, the lifecycle management service can add a spare host to a cluster of hosts in order to begin upgrading one or more hosts in that cluster. This can be performed in parallel, using the spare hosts from different racks simultaneously.

Parallel multi-rack dataplane upgrades

A system and method for supplying on-premise hyper-converged systems uses a cloud service to receive orders for the on-premise hyper-converged systems from customers and to request a system integrator to procure hardware components of the on-premise hyper-converged systems and to assemble hardware components to produce assembled systems. Software components are remotely installed and configured in the assembled systems from the cloud service using bring-up appliances in virtual private clouds created for the on-premise hyper-converged systems to deploy software-defined data centers (SDDCs) in the on-premise hyper-converged systems. The resulting on-premise hyper-converged systems with the deployed SDDCs can then used by the customers.

System and method for supplying on-premise hyper-converged systems

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Sushil Shripal Munot