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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 09, 2020
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Janakiram Vantipalli, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Anjaneya Prasad Gondi, Fremont, CA (US);
Aravinda Haryadi, Bangalore, IN;
Raghavendra Subbarao Narahari Venkata, Santa Clara, CA (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of creating a software image of a solution to be deployed in a virtualized computing environment includes: retrieving a schema of the solution and determining from the schema software products that are required by the solution and software features that are required by the solution; for each software product, selecting a version of the software product to include in the solution and identifying software features provided by the selected version of the software product; and upon confirming that the selected versions of the software products provide all of the software features that are required, creating the software image of the solution that includes the selected version of each of the software products, and saving the software image in a storage device for deployment in the virtualized computing environment.