Vmware, Inc.

Nicira, Inc.

Wenping Fan

Yao Zhang

Wen Jie Wang

Shengbo Teng

Zhikai Chen

Xi Chen

Ming Jin Chen

Daniel James Beveridge

Zhibin He

Bin Guo

Hong Yue

Sandro Moiron

Kiran Rao

Tony Lu

Binyang Li

Changyan Chi

Xiansheng Yu

A system is described for authenticating a user on a client device using the user's mobile device and utilizing the audio channel. An authentication server receives a request from the client to initiate a session for the user, creates the session, and sends a session token back to the client along with a request for authentication. The client broadcasts an audio transmission containing the token to the mobile device over an audio channel using data-over-sound transmission. The mobile device receives the transmission via a microphone, obtains the token and the server identity from the transmission, and sends user credentials that are stored on the mobile device along with the token identifying the session directly to the authentication server. The server verifies the received credentials, confirms the token, and logs the user into the session.

User authentication over an audio channel using a mobile device

Example methods are provided for a host to perform authentication offload in a virtualized computing environment that includes the host and a destination server. The method may comprise detecting, from a virtualized computing instance, a packet destined for the destination server. The method may also comprise: in response to determination that the detected packet is an authentication request, obtaining, from the virtualized computing instance, metadata associated with a client application for which authentication is requested; and sending the authentication request and the metadata to the destination server to cause the destination server to authenticate the client application based on the metadata.

Authentication offload in virtualized computing environments

A method to improve virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) user experience includes providing a user access to a first virtual desktop executing a first set of applications and having a first virtual machine (VM) configuration, collecting VDI performance metrics associated with the first virtual desktop, detecting a problem from the VDI performance metrics, and changing a first remote display protocol configuration to address the problem. The method further includes collecting the user's feedback, training a model with the first VM configuration, the first set of applications, the user's feedback, and the first remote display protocol configuration, receiving a second VM configuration for a second virtual machine providing a second virtual desktop and a second set of applications on the second virtual desktop, using the model to generate a second remote display protocol configuration for the second virtual desktop, and configuring the second virtual desktop with the second remote display protocol configuration.

Solution which can improve VDI user experience automatically

A system can allow a user to continue using a virtual machine while a background reboot occurs on a clone of the virtual machine. A backup agent operating on a server can receive a request from a virtual machine operating in an active state, to complete a reboot operation without operational interruption. A hypervisor can clone the virtual machine. During and after cloning, the backup agent can cause a filter agent to capture changes to the virtual machine. The virtual machine clone can notify the backup agent that the reboot is complete. Changes made in the interim on the virtual machine can be integrated on the virtual machine clone. Then the hypervisor can transition usage from the virtual machine to the virtual machine clone.

Preventing interruption during virtual machine reboot

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