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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2026
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2023
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Emily Hong Xu, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Rama Koteswari Sudireddi, Cupertino, CA (US);
Arabinda Das, Bangalore, IN;
Shrinivas Patil, Bagalkot, IN;
VMware LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
An example method of managing hardware capacity in a multi-cloud computing system includes: obtaining, by a hardware inventory service executing in the multi-cloud computing system, hardware information for physical servers, in a public cloud, for which a customer has a subscription entitling bare-metal management of the physical servers; maintaining, by the hardware inventory service, an inventory of hardware capacity comprising a physical server pool that includes the physical servers; receiving, at the hardware inventory service, a request to consume the hardware capacity; and providing, by the hardware inventory service, a response to the request that identifies the physical server pool for deploying software to execute therein.
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