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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2014
Applicant:
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Inventor:
Campbell McNeill, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 (2006.01); G06F 9/445 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45533 (2013.01); G06F 8/65 (2013.01);
Abstract
Drone virtual machines are leveraged to support asynchronous patch management by initiating a drone virtual machine in a maintenance environment to perform a patch management update, saving the updated virtual machine and then initiating the updated virtual machine in an operational environment accessible to clients. A drone is initiated in a maintenance environment for checking patch compliance in response to a request to initiate a virtual machine so that patch updates are performed before the virtual machine initiates in an operational environment accessible to operational clients.