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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 28, 2016
Nutanix, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Constantine Andrew Kousoulis, San Jose, CA (US);
Karthik Chandrasekaran, Bangalore, IN;
Srinivas Bandi Ramesh Babu, Mountain View, CA (US);
Sudish Kumar Sah, Bangalore, IN;
NUTANIX, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Particular embodiments comprise (1) a cluster of host machines, each comprising at least one virtual machine (VM), one or more virtual infrastructure elements, and one or more required drivers for implementing the virtualization environment, and (2) a target host machine capable of implementing the virtualization environment based on a second platform, wherein the target host machine comprises at least one VM and one or more virtual infrastructure elements. A management module for the system performs steps to move one of the VMs from the cluster of host machines to the target host machine by checking whether the target host machine comprises one or more required drivers for implementing the virtualization environment and, if the target host machine comprises the one or more required drivers, activating the one or more required drivers, and sending a confirmation signal back to a control plane in the cluster of host machines.