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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 08, 2023
Filed:
Jul. 24, 2020
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Aravinda Haryadi, Bangalore, IN;
Patrick William Penzias Dirks, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Naga Ullas Vankayala Harinathagupta, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ashish Kaila, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Mukund Gunti, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Suresh Sundriyal, Palo Alto, CA (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
An image of a virtualization software and firmware in a plurality of hosts are upgraded by performing the steps of: validating a desired image of the virtualization software by extracting dependencies and conflicts defined in metadata of all payloads of the desired image of the virtualization software, and confirming there are no violations of the extracted dependencies and conflicts; performing a pre-check of the desired image of the virtualization software against a current image of the virtualization software and a pre-check of the desired version of the firmware against a current version of the firmware; and upon determining from results of the pre-check that the virtualization software can be upgraded to the desired image and the firmware can be upgraded to the desired version, upgrading the current image of the virtualization software to the desired image and upgrading the current version of the firmware to the desired version.