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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 09, 2020
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Aravinda Haryadi, Bangalore, IN;
Mukund Gunti, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of installing an image of a virtualization software in a cluster of hosts includes: in response to a user input, generating a software specification that specifies a base image of the virtualization software and a solution to be enabled; retrieving metadata of the base image, metadata of the solution, and a constraint of the solution; generating a desired image of the virtualization software based on the metadata of the base image and the metadata of the solution in accordance with the constraint; and instructing each host in the duster to install the desired image of the virtualization software.