公开(公告)号：US11720382B2

公开(公告)日：2023-08-08

申请号：US17153296

申请日：2021-01-20

Applicant: VMware, Inc.

Inventor： Derek William Beard ,  Jared Sean Rosoff ,  Mark Russell Johnson ,  Brian Charles Forney

IPC: G06F9/455

CPC classification number: G06F9/45541 ,  G06F9/45558 ,  G06F2009/45562

Abstract: An example virtualized computing system includes a host cluster having a virtualization layer executing on hardware platforms of hosts, the virtualization layer supporting execution of virtual machines (VMs), the VMs including pod VMs and native VMs, the pod VMs including container engines supporting execution of containers in the pod VMs, the native VMs including applications executing on guest operating systems; and an orchestration control plane integrated with the virtualization layer, the orchestration control plane including a master server having a pod VM controller to manage lifecycles of the pod VMs and a native VM controller to manage lifecycles of the native VMs.

公开(公告)号：US11593139B2

公开(公告)日：2023-02-28

申请号：US16838663

申请日：2020-04-02

Applicant: VMware, Inc.

Inventor： Derek William Beard ,  Brian Charles Forney ,  Mark Russell Johnson ,  Zachary James Shepherd

IPC: G06F9/455 ,  G06F8/65

Abstract: An example method of checking compatibility of a guest cluster executing as a virtual extension of a host cluster having an orchestration control plane managing the guest cluster, the host cluster being part of a software defined data center (SDDC), is described. The method includes: receiving, at the orchestration control plane, a guest cluster infrastructure software (GCIS) compatibility document that specifies what a GCIS of the orchestration control plane requires and offers; receiving a request for a compatibility check on the guest cluster with respect to the GCIS; obtaining, at the orchestration control plane in response to the request, an SDDC compatibility documents for the SDDC and a guest cluster compatibility document for the guest cluster; computing, at the orchestration control plane, the compatibility check in response to the GCIS compatibility document, the SDDC compatibility document, and the guest cluster compatibility document; and transmitting a result of the compatibility check from the orchestration control plane to a virtual infrastructure (VI) control plane of the SDDC.