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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2024
Vmware Llc, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Piyush Hasmukh Parmar, Pune, IN;
Amrita Shivananda Hegde, Siddapura, IN;
Gabriel Tarasuk-Levin, San Francisco, CA (US);
VMware LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
An example method of managing external storage for a software-defined data center (SDDC) executing in a cloud is described. The method includes receiving, at a storage manager from the SDDC, requests to consume capacity of the external storage, the external storage allocated for the SDDC according to a cloud subscription; determining, by the storage manager based on a batch of the requests in combination, an amount by which to expand a current capacity of the external storage to a target capacity comprising a sum of an expanded capacity and the current capacity; executing, by the storage manager in cooperation with a storage server of the external storage, a first activity to obtain the target capacity of the external storage; and sending, from the storage manager to the SDDC, at least one identifier that enables software executing in the SDDC to use the expanded capacity for the batch of requests.
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