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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2014
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Mornay Van Der Walt, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Dave Shanley, Fremont, CA (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A pre-configured hyper-converged computing device for supporting a virtualization infrastructure includes a first independent server node comprising a central processing unit (CPU), memory, and storage. The pre-configured hyper-converged computing device includes a pre-configured software module that comprises a graphical user-interface module for managing the pre-configured hyper-converged computing device, a hypervisor for managing virtual machines hosted by said pre-configured hyper-converged computing device and a storage block integrated with the hypervisor. The pre-configured hyper-converged computing device is offered for sale as a single stock keeping unit (SKU).