METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR INTELLIGENT SAMPLING OF NORMAL AND ERRONEOUS APPLICATION TRACES
Granted: September 15, 2022
Application Number:
20220291982
Computer-implemented methods and systems described herein perform intelligent sampling of application traces generated by an application. Computer-implemented methods and systems determine different sampling rates based on frequency of occurrence of normal traces and erroneous traces of the application. The sampling rates for low frequency normal and erroneous traces are larger than the sampling rates for high frequency normal and erroneous traces. The relatively larger sampling rates…
METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR INTELLIGENT SAMPLING OF APPLICATION TRACES
Granted: September 8, 2022
Application Number:
20220283924
Computer-implemented methods and systems described herein perform intelligent sampling of application traces generated by an application. Computer-implemented methods and systems determine different sampling rates based on frequency of occurrence of trace types and/or frequency of occurrence of durations of the traces. Each sampling rate corresponds to a different trace type and/or different duration. The sampling rates for low frequency trace types and durations are larger than the…
PERSISTING AN HTTP CONNECTION BETWEEN APPLICATION COMPONENTS
Granted: May 12, 2022
Application Number:
20220150319
Persistent connections are provided between components in a containiner environment. A hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) client may include a monitoring service and a proxy service. To obtain information regarding containers in the container environment, the monitoring service communicates a request to the proxy service. The proxy service in turn maintains a persistent connection for a session with a container management service using an authentication token, and communicates the…
SUPPORT FOR MULTI-AZ MANAGEMENT APPLIANCE NETWORKING
Granted: May 12, 2022
Application Number:
20220150165
Processes for managing computing processes within a plurality of data centers configured to provide a cloud computing environment are described. An exemplary process includes executing a process on a first host of a plurality of hosts. When the process is executing on the first host, a first network identifier associated with the plurality of hosts is not a network identifier of a pool of network identifiers associated with the cloud computing environment and first and second route…
FLOW-BASED LATENCY MEASUREMENT FOR LOGICAL OVERLAY NETWORK TRAFFIC
Granted: May 12, 2022
Application Number:
20220150147
Example methods and systems for flow-based latency measurement for logical overlay network traffic are described. In one example, in response to detecting a first inner data packet associated with a packet flow, a first computer system may generate and send a first encapsulated packet via a logical overlay tunnel towards a second computer system. The first encapsulated packet may be generated by encapsulating the first inner data packet with a first outer header that includes first time…
MANAGING CLIENT COMPUTING SYSTEMS USING DISTILLED DATA STREAMS
Granted: May 5, 2022
Application Number:
20220141316
The present disclosure relates to techniques for managing client computing systems, such as a client distributed-computing system. In one embodiment, a desired state of the client distributed-computing system and a current state of the client distributed-computing system are received. Measurement data generated by a plurality of components of the client distributed-computing system is received. The measurement data is processed using one or more analytical or statistical techniques to…
CACHE MANAGEMENT IN A PRINTING SYSTEM IN A VIRTUALIZED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT
Granted: May 5, 2022
Application Number:
20220137905
A varied least recently used (VLRU) caching technique is used to enable print data to be available at a cache of a client for printing, even after an agent performs a deletion of a hash value for the print data at a cache of the agent. The deletion of the print data (cached at the cache of the client) is postponed at the client device via the use of a waiting list, so that the cached print data can be printed at a physical printer of the client, in response to receiving a delayed print…
FAULT-TOLERANT UPLOADING OF DATA TO A DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEM
Granted: April 21, 2022
Application Number:
20220121532
Techniques for the increased efficiency of storing data objects storage in the object storage of a software designed data center (SDDC) are provided. The techniques include the efficient storage of data, while enabling snapshots of each updating of the data. The snapshots of the data may be efficiently recovered via the techniques. Difference-level mappings for each snapshot are encoded in compact self-balancing data trees included in the object's metadata. The metadata mappings include…
DISTRIBUTED OBJECT STORAGE SUPPORTING DIFFERENCE-LEVEL SNAPSHOTS
Granted: April 21, 2022
Application Number:
20220121365
Techniques for the increased efficiency of storing data objects storage in the object storage of a software designed data center (SDDC) are provided. The techniques include the efficient storage of data, while enabling snapshots of each updating of the data. The snapshots of the data may be efficiently recovered via the techniques. Difference-level mappings for each snapshot are encoded in compact self-balancing data trees included in the object's metadata. The metadata mappings include…
CONTEXT-AWARE NETWORK POLICY ENFORCEMENT
Granted: April 14, 2022
Application Number:
20220116379
Example methods and systems for context-aware network policy enforcement are described. In one example, a computer system may detect a request for a client device to access a destination server. The computer system may extract, from the request, connection information identifying a connection to be established for the client device to access the destination server; and map the connection information to contextual information associated with the client device or a user operating the…
METHODS AND SYSTEMS THAT GENERATE AND USE MICRO-SEGEMENTATION QUOTIENTS FOR SECURITY MONITORING OF DISTRIBUTED-COMPUTER-SYSTEM COMPONENTS
Granted: April 7, 2022
Application Number:
20220109684
The current document is directed to methods and systems that generate microsegmentation quotients for computational entities and components of a distributed-computer-system. In the described implementation, microsegmentation quotients are generated for each component, subsystem, or computational entity, collectively referred to as “system entities,” of a set of specified system-entity types within the distributed computer system. Microsegmentation quotients are generated for system…
WORKFLOW FOR ENABLING DATA-IN-TRANSIT IN A DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM
Granted: April 7, 2022
Application Number:
20220109570
A distributed system, such as a distributed storage system in a virtualized computing environment and having storage nodes arranged in a cluster, is provided by management server with a transition period between non-encryption and encryption modes of operation. The transition period enables all of the nodes to complete a transition from the non-encryption mode of operation to the encryption mode of operation, without loss of data-in-transit (DIT). An auto-remediation feature is provided…
INCREMENTAL AND PARALLEL ROUTING DOMAIN COMPUTATION
Granted: March 31, 2022
Application Number:
20220103455
Example methods and systems for routing domain computation are described. In one example, a computer system may assign multiple logical entities with respective routing domain identifiers (IDs) by processing network topology information using multiple compute nodes. In response to detecting a network topology change associated with a particular logical entity, the computer system may determine first state change information identifying a first update to first state information maintained…
AUTOMATIC TRANSFORMATION OF TIME SERIES DATA AT INGESTION
Granted: March 31, 2022
Application Number:
20220100771
In a computer-implemented method for automatic transformation of time series data at ingestion, time series data comprising data points is received at at least one ingestion node of a time series data monitoring system, wherein the data points have an input observability format. At the at least one ingestion node, the data points the data points are transformed from the input observability format to an output observability format according to configuration rules of the time series data…
ALERT NOTIFICATION ON STREAMING TEXTUAL DATA
Granted: March 31, 2022
Application Number:
20220100589
In a computer-implemented method for performing alert notification on streaming textual data, streaming textual data is received. A plurality of copies of the streaming textual data is generated, wherein a first copy of the streaming textual data is transmitted to an ingestion service for persistent storage at a data plane and a second copy of the streaming textual data is transmitted to an alert evaluation service for performing alert evaluation on the streaming textual data, such that…
SUPPORTING DEDUPLICATION IN FILE STORAGE USING FILE CHUNK HASHES
Granted: March 24, 2022
Application Number:
20220092033
The present disclosure is related to methods, systems, and machine-readable media for supporting deduplication in file storage using file chunk hashes. A hash of a chunk of a log segment can be received from a software defined data center. A chunk identifier can be associated with the hash in a hash map that stores associations between sequentially-allocated chunk identifiers and hashes. The chunk identifier can be associated with a logical address corresponding to the chunk of the log…
SUPPORTING DEDUPLICATION IN OBJECT STORAGE USING SUBSET HASHES
Granted: March 24, 2022
Application Number:
20220091765
The present disclosure is related to methods, systems, and machine-readable media for supporting deduplication in object storage using subset hashes. A plurality of hashes of a plurality of blocks of a plurality of log segments can be received from a software defined data center, wherein each block corresponds to a respective logical address. Each of the plurality of logical addresses can be associated with a respective sequentially-allocated chunk identifier in a logical map. A subset…
LOCATION-AWARE SERVICE REQUEST HANDLING
Granted: March 17, 2022
Application Number:
20220086150
Example methods and systems are provided for location-aware service request handling. The method may comprise: generating and sending location information associated with virtualized computing instance to a service node or a management entity for transmission to the service node. The location information may identify logical element(s) to which the virtualized computing instance is connected. The method may further comprise: in response to detecting, from the virtualized computing…
AUTOMATIC RECLAMATION OF RESERVED RESOURCES IN A CLUSTER WITH FAILURES
Granted: March 10, 2022
Application Number:
20220075694
When a failure occurs at a host in a cluster of hosts in a virtualized computing environment, virtualized computing instances that were running on the failed host are restarted on the active host(s) in the cluster. Resources to enable the restart of the virtualized computing instances are made available by powering off virtualized computing instances that are running on the active hosts. Determination of which virtualized computing instances to power off and to power on can be performed…
DYNAMIC OVER-PROVISIONING OF SPACE IN A LOG-STRUCTURED FILE SYSTEM
Granted: February 24, 2022
Application Number:
20220058043
The present disclosure is related to methods, systems, and machine-readable media for log-structured file system management operations. An aggregate amount of over-provisioned computing resources assigned to a plurality of log-structured file system (LFS) objects that are allocated for performance of memory management operations associated with a virtual storage area network (vSAN) can be determined. A subset of LFS objects that are candidates for performance of a particular memory…
