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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 18, 2015
Level 3 Communications, Llc, Broomfield, CO (US);
Claudia M. Combellas, Centennial, CO (US);
Dana A. Johnston, Littleton, CO (US);
Level 3 Communications, LLC, Broomfield, CO (US);
Abstract
According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, a communication node upgrade system includes a computer-based set of instructions that are executed to identify an existing virtual machine (VM) to be upgraded, obtain upgraded software for the existing VM, create a new VM in a virtualized computing environment using the upgraded software, and copy configuration information from the existing VM to the new VM. Thereafter, the operation of the existing VM may be replaced with the new VM in the communication network. The existing VM comprising at least one communication node that provides one or more communication services for a communication network in which the existing VM is executed in a virtualized computing environment, and the configuration information includes information associated with configuration of the existing VM to provide the communication services by the existing VM.