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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2016
Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);
Florentine Fitzgerald, Kingston, NY (US);
Gregory M. McCullough, Kinnelon, NJ (US);
Jason W. Frey, Cedar Knolls, NJ (US);
Oleg Barenboim, Englewood Cliffs, NJ (US);
Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);
Abstract
The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a method that includes responsive to occurrence of a virtual machine (VM) retirement event, invoking, by a processing device in a management platform, a VM retirement state machine of the management platform to handle retirement of a VM corresponding to the VM retirement event, setting, via the VM retirement state machine, a VM retirement attribute corresponding to the VM to a retiring state, determining, via the VM retirement state machine, that the VM is in a correct state to retire, performing, via the VM retirement state machine, user-customized pre-retirement processes corresponding to the VM, retiring, via the VM retirement state machine, the VM, and setting, via the VM retirement state machine, the VM retirement attribute to a retired state.