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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 12, 2017
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Suket Gakhar, Bangalore, IN;
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A quick hardware inventory of a software-defined data center (SDDC) multi-rack is created. A hardware management server (HMS) receives an imaging of a first rack and performs a node hash of attributes of the imaging of the first rack. A hash database is then checked for an inventory hash that matches the node hash of the first rack. If a match is found, a rack inventory is loaded from a persistent rack data inventory correlated with the inventory hash instead of the HMS performing a discovery and inventory of the first rack. In addition, a sensor error log of the first rack is checked for any errors and the rack inventory is modified based on any errors in the sensor error log. The rack inventory is then saved into the server switch object cache of the HMS. The steps are repeated by the HMS for each additional rack.