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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2023
Filed:
Apr. 20, 2022
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Patrick William Penzias Dirks, Monte Sereno, CA (US);
Aravinda Haryadi, Bangalore, IN;
Mukund Gunti, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Vishnu Mohan Sekhar, Chennai, IN;
Naga Ullas Vankayala Harinathagupta, Santa Clara, 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: in response to a user input, generating a software specification that specifies a desired state of the virtualization software and a desired state of the firmware; based on the software specification, preparing a desired image of the virtualization software that includes software components of a desired version of the firmware; and coordinating an upgrade to the desired image of the virtualization software and the desired version of the firmware in the hosts. The upgrade includes an upgrade in each of the hosts to the desired version of the firmware, and an upgrade in each of the hosts to the desired image of the virtualization software that includes the software components of the desired version of the base image and the software components of the desired version of the firmware.