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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2012
Jan Moeller, Galten, DK;
Steffen Grarup, Hoejbjerg, DK;
Rene W. Schmidt, Risskov, DK;
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Virtual machines may be configured in a complex computing environment having dependencies among themselves and on the virtualization platform they operate on. The present disclosure formalizes these dependencies by defining a component framework that enables a deployer to know about the dependencies at deployment time and allow the platform to ensure that all required dependencies are satisfied at runtime. Disclosed is a set of Open Virtualization Format (OVF) sections that allow an OVF package to express dependencies to services using OVF meta-data. At deployment time, those OVF sections allow the platform to recognize and honor those dependencies, and at runtime provide the virtual machines with appropriate configuration meta-data.