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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2024

Filed:

Jul. 27, 2023
Applicant:

Vmware Llc, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:

Aravinda Haryadi, Bangalore, IN;

Mukund Gunti, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Ritesh Ranjan, Bangalore, IN;

Dipesh Kumar, Bangalore, IN;

Yuedong Mu, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Geoffrey Blair Fritz, Indianapolis, IN (US);

Assignee:

VMware LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 8/65 (2018.01); G06F 8/61 (2018.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01); H04L 67/00 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 8/65 (2013.01); G06F 8/63 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); H04L 67/34 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45595 (2013.01);
Abstract

An example method of upgrading a host in a cluster under management of a lifecycle manager in a virtualized computing system includes: receiving, from the lifecycle manager at a host in the cluster being upgraded, a desired software specification for a hypervisor of the host; determining, by the host, a list of required software installation bundles (SIBs) to satisfy the desired software specification; identifying a neighboring host in the cluster for the host; downloading, from the neighboring host to the host, at least a portion of the required SIBs; and executing an upgrade of the hypervisor in the host using the required SIBs.


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