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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2016
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Don Newell, Cupertino, CA (US);
Atanu Panda, San Jose, CA (US);
Mallika Kamat, Mountain View, CA (US);
Rohan Sen, Bangalore, IN;
Sudipto Mukhopadhyay, Pleasanton, CA (US);
VMWARE, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus for software lifecycle management of a virtual computing environment. An example method includes determining if sufficient computing resources for installing the software are available in a virtual environment in the virtual rack system, when sufficient computing resources are not available in the virtual environment, identifying a spare computing resource that is available for use during installation of the software, adding the spare computing resource to the virtual environment, migrating a workload that is executing on a current computing resource to the spare computing resource, and installing the software on the current computing resource.