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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.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2015
Applicant:
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
VMWARE, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 (2018.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06F 8/60 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 8/60 (2013.01); G06F 9/5077 (2013.01); G06F 2009/4557 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45595 (2013.01);
Abstract
An example method to manage a virtual appliance in a virtualized computing environment may comprise obtaining, by a computing system, data relating to the virtual appliance that specifies a virtual machine implementing a software application. The method may also comprise configuring, by the computing system, an operational mode for the virtual machine to customize the virtual appliance for deployment. The method may further comprise deploying, by the computing system, the virtual appliance with the virtual machine operating in the operational mode.