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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2013
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Leslie Muller, London, GB;
Valentina Reutova, Arlington, MA (US);
Ken Pespisa, Maynard, MA (US);
Mike Barron, Belmont, MA (US);
Murat Bayan, London, GB;
Frederic Torres, Stow, MA (US);
Dave Zolotusky, Cambridge, MA (US);
Derek Chasse, Stoneham, MA (US);
Sudershan Bhandari, Burlington, MA (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus to manage virtual machines are described. An example method includes presenting a list of available basic blueprints, storing a multi-machine blueprint referencing a first basic blueprint for a first virtual machine from the list and a second basic blueprint for a second virtual machine from the list, and in response to a request to provision the multi-machine blueprint, the request including an identification of a first number of instances to be provisioned for the first virtual machine and a second number of instances to be provisioned for the second virtual machine, provisioning the first number of instances of the first virtual machine and the second number of instances of the second virtual machine.