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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 16, 2010
Frank Taylor, Barnet, GB;
David Simons, Welwyn Garden, GB;
Anthony Wilkinson, Aylosbury, GB;
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and techniques that enable enhanced coordination and management of a plurality of servers cooperatively operating in a cluster of servers. In one implementation, a plurality of enhanced Virtual Desktop Management (VDM) Servers operating in a Federated Virtual Desktop Management (VDM) Cluster are provided. Each of the enhanced VDM Servers active in the Federated VDM Cluster use federated task information pertaining to and derived from various executing federated tasks. However, only a single selected one of the plurality of enhanced VDM Servers is executing a particular one of the federated tasks at a time so that each federated task is continuously running somewhere in the Federated VDM Cluster.