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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 10044795 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2018

Filed:

Jun. 26, 2015

Methods and apparatus for rack deployments for virtual computing environments

Applicant:

Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:

Thirumalesh Reddy, San Jose, CA (US);

Raj Yavatkar, Saratoga, CA (US);

Sreekantha Indireddy, Cupertino, CA (US);

Shreekanth Ankala, Dublin, CA (US);

Assignee:

VMWARE INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorney:

Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

Primary Examiner:

Azizul Choudhury

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); G06F 9/4401 (2018.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/10 (2013.01); G06F 9/4416 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 9/5077 (2013.01); H04L 12/4675 (2013.01); H04L 41/048 (2013.01); H04L 41/0806 (2013.01); H04L 41/0893 (2013.01); H04L 41/5096 (2013.01); H04L 67/38 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45595 (2013.01); H04L 41/0266 (2013.01); H04L 41/0681 (2013.01); H04L 41/082 (2013.01); H04L 41/5038 (2013.01); H04L 43/0817 (2013.01); H04L 43/0852 (2013.01); H04L 43/0876 (2013.01); H04L 43/10 (2013.01); H04L 61/2015 (2013.01); H04L 61/2076 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods and apparatus for rack deployments for virtual computing environments are disclosed. An example method includes retrieving, from a repository remote from a system integrator, a software image to be deployed on a processing unit installed in a server rack, in response to receiving a dynamic host configuration protocol request from a processing unit at a virtual imaging appliance, detecting the processing unit and transmitting a network address to the processing unit to be utilized by the processing unit, transmitting the software image from the virtual imaging appliance to the network address assigned to the processing unit, and transmitting a hardware management system software image from the virtual imaging appliance to a network switch installed in the server rack to cause a hardware management system to be installed in the server rack.

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