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Date of Patent:
Aug. 08, 2023

Filed:

Jan. 20, 2021
Applicant:

Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:

Derek William Beard, Austin, TX (US);

Jared Sean Rosoff, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Mark Russell Johnson, McKinleyville, CA (US);

Brian Charles Forney, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:

VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45541 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45562 (2013.01);
Abstract

An example virtualized computing system includes a host cluster having a virtualization layer executing on hardware platforms of hosts, the virtualization layer supporting execution of virtual machines (VMs), the VMs including pod VMs and native VMs, the pod VMs including container engines supporting execution of containers in the pod VMs, the native VMs including applications executing on guest operating systems; and an orchestration control plane integrated with the virtualization layer, the orchestration control plane including a master server having a pod VM controller to manage lifecycles of the pod VMs and a native VM controller to manage lifecycles of the native VMs.


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