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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2022
Filed:
Jul. 27, 2020
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Aravinda Haryadi, Bangalore, IN;
Mukund Gunti, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Olivier Alain Cremel, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jeffrey Hu, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Patrick William Penzias Dirks, Palo Alto, CA (US);
VMWARE, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
An image of a virtualization software in a plurality of hosts is installed or upgraded by performing the steps of: in response to a user input, generating a software specification that specifies a base image and an add-on image; retrieving metadata of the base image and metadata of the add-on image; generating a desired image of the virtualization software based on the metadata of the base image and the metadata of the add-on image; and instructing each of the hosts to install the desired image of the virtualization software or upgrade a current image of the virtualization software to the desired image of the virtualization software.