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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 19, 2020
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Mahesh Jethanandani, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Sachin Thakkar, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Venu Gopala Rao Kotha, Bangalore, IN;
Akshatha Sathyanarayan, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Shruti Parihar, Palo Alto, CA (US);
VMWARE, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
An orchestrator process can efficiently distribute images of virtual network functions ('VNFs') in a telco network. The images can be accompanied by metadata that describes VNF requirements, such as computing requirements and functional characteristics. Based on the image metadata and location of a virtual infrastructure manager ('VIM'), the orchestrator can select a storage location and deploy the image to the storage location. The VIM can instantiate a corresponding VNF by retrieving the image. The orchestrator can track the storage location and cause the VIM to delete the image if the image is not used for a threshold period of time.