Automated methods and systems that provide resource recommendations for virtual machines
Granted: May 6, 2025
Patent Number:
12293233
The current document is directed to methods and systems that generate recommendations for resource specifications used in virtual-machine-hosting requests. When distributed applications are submitted to distributed-computer-system-based hosting platforms for hosting, the hosting requester generally specifies the computational resources that will need to be provisioned for each virtual machine included in a set of virtual machines that correspond to the distributed application, such as…
Co-execution of an application among a plurality of compute nodes through application-level virtualization
Granted: May 6, 2025
Patent Number:
12293198
A method for executing an application over a plurality of nodes in each of which an application monitor and a runtime are executing includes executing a first portion of the application by first threads of the runtime of the first node and a second portion of the application by second threads of the runtime of the second node, and under control of the application monitors of the first and second nodes and while executing the first portions and second portions of the application,…
Methods and systems for establishing direct communications between a server computer and a smart network interface controller
Granted: May 6, 2025
Patent Number:
12292845
This disclosure describes processes for performing direct memory access (“DMA”) between memory of a host and memory of a smart network interface controller (“SNIC”) connected to a bus of the host. The host runs a host thread in a processor of the host and the SNIC runs a SNIC thread in a processor of the SNIC. The host thread and the SNIC thread facilitate direct access of the SNIC thread to memory locations in the memory of the host. The SNIC thread can fetch data directly from…
Advanced storage operations for WAN optimization
Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number:
12278766
Some embodiments of the invention provide a WAN optimization method for optimizing traffic flows through a WAN. The method is performed in a kernel space of a first router at a first site. From a second router at a second site, the method receives, in an optimized data stream from a second site source device to a first site destination device, a file including compressed segments not yet stored by the first router, and copies the compressed segments to a memory shared with a…
Reflection route for link local packet processing
Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number:
12278757
A method receives a request packet from a workload at a first logical interface of a logical router and determines that a source address is a first link local address for the workload and a destination address is a second link local address for the first logical interface. A second logical interface includes the second link local address. The method stores an identifier for the first logical interface as an egress interface. The identifier distinguishes the first logical interface from…
Integrating virtualization and host networking
Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number:
12277436
The disclosure provides for integrating virtual machine (VM) and host networking, forwarding port data and occupation status to host and VM endpoints. Examples synchronize, by a host agent, port reservations with a guest agent on a first VM on the host; receive an indication that a VM port on the first VM is occupied; based at least on receiving the indication that the VM port is occupied, update the port reservations to include that a host port corresponding to the VM port is occupied;…
Hypervisor assisted security of dangling volumes for containers
Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number:
12277434
The disclosure provides a method for securing, by a hypervisor of a host, a first persistent volume used to maintain data for one or more first containers on the host. The method generally includes receiving a request to retain the first persistent volume when the one or more first containers are removed from the host, receiving a first container image associated with one of the one or more first containers, generating a first key for reserving the first persistent volume, the key based,…
Desired state configuration for virtual machines
Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number:
12277433
Systems and methods for setting virtual machines (“VMs”) to desired configurations while the virtual machines are running. In some systems, a user can select a VM and a desired configuration. An agent can then set an attribute of the virtual machine to indicate that on guest operation system (“OS”) reboot of the VM, the VM will enter BIOS mode. The agent can also store the desired configuration in the database based on authenticating the user. When the VM reboots at a future…
Device tree runtime mechanism
Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number:
12277422
Systems and methods are included for causing a computing device to boot by retrieving hardware information from a device tree and further properties by utilizing a native access method call identified in the device tree. The access method can allow for getting a property, getting a property length, or setting a property. A table within firmware can identify the method, which then can retrieve the property information from memory. This Device tree Runtime (“DTRT”) mechanism can allow…
Containerized workload scheduling
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12271749
A method for containerized workload scheduling can include monitoring network traffic between a first containerized workload deployed on a node in a virtual computing environment to determine affinities between the first containerized workload and other containerized workloads in the virtual computing environment. The method can further include scheduling, based, at least in part, on the determined affinities between the first containerized workload and the other containerized workloads,…
Dynamic mounting of trusted certificates into function execution on a containerized environment
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12271461
Dynamic supply of trusted certificates to a containerized environment by mounting a directory into a container image can be implemented as computer-readable methods, media and systems. The directory stores trusted certificates related to a tenant account at a platform system. The trusted certificates include user specific trusted certificates relevant for authentication at an external system and default certificates relevant for an operating system running at a containerized runtime…
Deduplicating data chunks using chunk objects
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12271298
The disclosure herein describes deduplicating data chunks using chunk objects. A batch of data chunks is obtained from an original data object and a hash value is calculated for each data chunk. A first duplicate data chunk is identified using the hash value and a hash map. A chunk logical block address (LBA) of a chunk object is assigned to the duplicate data chunk. Payload data of the duplicate data chunk is migrated from the original data object to the chunk object, and a chunk map is…
Network management services in a virtual network
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12267364
A software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) environment that leverages network virtualization management deployment is provided. Edge security services managed by the network virtualization management deployment are made available in the SD-WAN environment. Cloud gateways forward SD-WAN traffic to managed service nodes to apply security services. Network traffic is encapsulated with corresponding metadata to ensure that services can be performed according to the desired policy.…
WAN optimization using probabilistic data filters
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12267250
Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for WAN (wide area network) optimization for a WAN that connects multiple sites, each of which has at least one router. At a gateway router deployed to a public cloud, the method receives from at least two routers at least two sites, multiple data streams destined for a particular centralized datacenter. The method performs a WAN optimization operation to aggregate the multiple streams into one outbound stream that is WAN optimized for…
Implementing defined service policies in a third-party container cluster
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12267212
Some embodiments provide a method of implementing service rules for a container cluster that is configured by a first SDN controller cluster. The method registers for event notification from an application programming interface (API) server to receive notification regarding events associated with resources deployed in the container cluster. The method forwards to a second SDN controller cluster resource identifiers collected through the registration for resources of the container…
Use of nested hypervisors by a resource-exchange system to enhance data and operational security and to facilitate component installation
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12265849
The current document is directed a resource-exchange system that facilitates resource exchange and sharing among computing facilities. The currently disclosed methods and systems employ efficient, distributed-search methods and subsystems within distributed computer systems that include large numbers of geographically distributed data centers to locate resource-provider computing facilities that match the resource needs of resource-consumer computing-facilities based on attribute values…
Methods and apparatus to generate code as a plug-in in a cloud computing environment
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12265833
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to generate code as a plug-in in a cloud computing environment. An example system includes at least one memory, programmable circuitry, and machine readable instructions to program the programmable circuitry to introspect code in a library to obtain introspection data, the library corresponding to a resource that is to be deployed in a cloud infrastructure environment, generate a model based on the introspection data,…
Automatic drift detection of configurations of a software-defined data center that are managed according to a desired state
Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12260229
Drift is automatically detected in configuration of services running in a management appliance of a software-defined data center. A method of automatically detecting drift includes: in response to a notification of a change in a configuration of a first service enabled for proactive drift detection, transmitting a first request to compute drift in the configuration of the first service to a plug-in of the first service, the first request including the change in the configuration of the…
Forwarding packets in multi-regional large scale deployments with distributed gateways
Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12261777
Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for forwarding packets through an SD-WAN. To facilitate the forwarding of packets between first and second regions of the SD-WAN, said first and second regions having respective first and second hub routers forwarding packets between respective first and second sets of edge routers of respective first and second sets of sites of the first and second regions, the method directs (1) the first set of edge routers to establish connections to…
External communication with packaged virtual machine applications without networking
Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12260246
One or more embodiments provide techniques that permit virtual computing instances in isolated environments to communicate information outside the isolated environments without requiring networking. In one embodiment, an encoder which runs in a virtual machine (VM) within an isolated environment, such as one of the VMs of a packaged virtual machine application that does not have external network connectivity, is configured to encode information, such as state information of the packaged…
