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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2025
Filed:
May. 11, 2023
Vmware Llc, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Prashanth Suresh, San Jose, CA (US);
Sushil Shripal Munot, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Shyama Sankar Vellore, Mountain View, CA (US);
Rucha Rajurkar, San Jose, CA (US);
VMware LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Examples described herein include systems and methods for parallel upgrades of multiple hosts within an on-premises, multi-rack software-defined data center ('SDDC'). Upgrade instructions can be provided to a point-of-presence (“POP”) virtual machine (“VM”) of the SDDC, which can call an application programming interface (“API”) of a pod service executing on a control plane VM in the SDDC. For example, the pod service can generate a set of instructions for performing cluster upgrades in parallel. In one example, the pod service provides the instructions to a lifecycle management service executing on a VM of the SDDC, such as the control plane VM. In some examples, the lifecycle management service can add a spare host to a cluster of hosts in order to begin upgrading one or more hosts in that cluster. This can be performed in parallel, using the spare hosts from different racks simultaneously.