Adaptive rate limiting of flow probes
Granted: August 27, 2024
Patent Number:
12074802
A technique for performing adaptive rate limiting of flow probes is described. The technique includes sending a plurality of flow probes from a first service engine to at least one other service engine. The flow probes are sent at a rate that does not exceed a rate limit. A flow probe of the plurality of flow probes is generated in response to the first service engine receiving a mid-flow packet for a flow that is not recognized by the first service engine. A recipient service engine of…
Methods, systems, and apparatus to scale in and/or scale out resources managed by a cloud automation system
Granted: August 27, 2024
Patent Number:
12074774
Methods and apparatus to scale in and/or scale out arbitrary resources managed by a cloud automation system are disclosed. An example apparatus includes processor circuitry; and a non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions which, when executed, cause the processor circuitry to: in response to an indication to scale a first component of an application to be deployed: determine an execution plan to scale the first component based on a dependency graph corresponding to…
Replication of VPN configuration
Granted: August 27, 2024
Patent Number:
12074765
Some embodiments provide a method for automatically configuring VPN gateways. The method receives a first configuration for a first VPN gateway located at a first datacenter. The configuration includes configuration data for a first set of VPNs connecting a first set of networks at the first datacenter to other networks at other datacenters. The method automatically modifies the configuration data to generate a second configuration for a second VPN gateway. The method configures the…
Transitive routing in public cloud
Granted: August 27, 2024
Patent Number:
12074731
Some embodiments provide a centralized overlay-network cloud gateway and a set of centralized services in a transit virtual cloud network (VCN) connected to multiple other compute VCNs hosting compute nodes (VMs, containers, etc.) that are part of (belong to) the overlay network. The centralized overlay-network cloud gateway provides connectivity between compute nodes of the overlay network (e.g., a logical network spanning multiple VCNs) and compute nodes in external networks. Some…
Microservice scheduling
Granted: August 27, 2024
Patent Number:
12073242
A method for containerized workload scheduling can include determining a network state for a first hypervisor in a virtual computing cluster (VCC). The method can further include determining a network state for a second hypervisor. Containerized workload scheduling can further include deploying a container to run a containerized workload on a virtual computing instance (VCI) deployed on the first hypervisor or the second hypervisor based, at least in part, on the determined network state…
Connecting real-time data sets to historical data
Granted: August 27, 2024
Patent Number:
12072876
Examples of generating a result set from a data lake based upon a real-time data set are described. A data lake can be structured across multiple databases or tables that are not necessarily directly linked to one another. A conjunction schema can specify how data can be queried across the data lake. When an incoming real-time data set is obtained, a multi-query can be generated against the data lake by utilizing the conjunction schema.
Memory coherency in application-level virtualization
Granted: August 27, 2024
Patent Number:
12072804
A coherence protocol applied to memory pages maintains coherence between memory spaces on a plurality of nodes so that the threads of the runtime are operable on any of the nodes. The nodes operating according to the coherence protocol track a state and an epoch number for each memory page residing therein. The states include a modified state in which only one particular node has an up-to-date copy of the memory page, an exclusive state in which only one particular node owns the memory…
Methods and physical network to reduce network dependencies in a multi-fabric virtual network
Granted: August 20, 2024
Patent Number:
12068957
An example system including a first top-of-rack (ToR) switch, and a second ToR switch, the second ToR switch is to receive a network packet from a first host, the network packet to include a destination address of a second host, and after a failure of a physical network interface card (pNIC) at the second host eliminates a first link between the second host and the second ToR switch, send the network packet to the first ToR switch via an inter-switch link between the first and second ToR…
Managing client computing systems using distilled data streams
Granted: August 20, 2024
Patent Number:
12069140
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…
Filtering and classifying multicast network traffic
Granted: August 20, 2024
Patent Number:
12068967
Described herein are systems and methods to filter and classify multicast network traffic. In one example, a first computing node may receive a multicast communication from a second computing node and register a for a flow associated with the multicast communication, wherein the context includes at least the multicast port associated with the multicast communication. The first computing node further identifies an outbound communication destined for the second computing node and…
Launcher application with connectivity detection for shared mobile devices
Granted: August 20, 2024
Patent Number:
12068933
Disclosed are approaches for a launcher application with connectivity detection for shared mobile devices. In some examples, among others, a management service component, a client device component, an enterprise environment component, or other connectivity endpoints associated with a plurality of applications can be identified. At least one response to requests transmitted to the connectivity endpoints can be received. A mode of connectivity can be determined based on the response. An…
Adaptive idle detection in a software-defined data center in a hyper-converged infrastructure
Granted: August 20, 2024
Patent Number:
12067430
An adaptive idle detection method determines whether software defined data centers (SDDCs) in a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) environment are idle. Idleness may be quantified via a coefficient of variation (CV) against resource usage, so as to adapt the idle detection method to SDDCs with different hardware specifications and workloads. Management overhead may also be filtered out by the idle detection method, and the idle detection method may use idleness scores to further reduce…
Efficient, automated distributed-search methods and systems
Granted: August 13, 2024
Patent Number:
12063265
The current document is directed to efficient, distributed-search methods and subsystems within distributed computer systems, including computer systems distributed over multiple sets of geographically distributed data centers, each comprising multiple discrete computer systems, such as multi-processor servers. In one implementation, the distributed-search methods and subsystems are implemented locally within participating entities as well as within one or more distributed-search…
Service authentication through a voice assistant
Granted: August 13, 2024
Patent Number:
12063214
Disclosed are various approaches for authenticating a user through a voice assistant device and creating an association between the device and a user account. The request is associated with a network or federated service. The user can use a client device, such as a smartphone, to initiate an authentication flow. A passphrase is provided to the client device can captured by the client device and a voice assistant device. Audio captured by the client device and voice assistant device can…
Dynamic traffic prioritization across data centers
Granted: August 13, 2024
Patent Number:
12063204
The disclosure provides an approach for processing communications between connected data centers. Embodiments include receiving, at a first gateway of a first data center from a second gateway of a second data center, one or more policies associated with traffic attributes. Embodiments include programming priority routes between the first gateway and the second gateway over a virtual private network (VPN) tunnel based on the one or more policies, wherein each of the priority routes is…
Decoupling compute and storage resources in cloud-based HCI (hyper-converged infrastructure)
Granted: August 13, 2024
Patent Number:
12061922
Techniques for decoupling compute and storage resources in a hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) are provided. In one set of embodiments, a control plane of the HCI deployment can provision a host from a host platform of an infrastructure on which the HCI deployment is implemented and can provision one or more storage volumes from a storage platform of the infrastructure, where the storage platform runs on physical server resources in the infrastructure that are separate from the host…
Methods and systems that automatically predict distributed-computer-system performance degradation using automatically trained machine-learning components
Granted: August 13, 2024
Patent Number:
12061515
The current document is directed to methods and systems that automatically generate training data for machine-learning-based components used by a metric-data processing-and-analysis component of a distributed computer system, a subsystem within a distributed computer system, or a standalone metric-data processing-and-analysis system. The training data sets are labeled using categorical KPI values. The machine-learning-based components are applied to metric data both for predicting…
Dynamic growth of data caches using background processes for hash bucket growth
Granted: August 6, 2024
Patent Number:
12056054
The disclosure describes growing a data cache using a background hash bucket growth process. A first memory portion is allocated to the data buffer of the data cache and a second memory portion is allocated to the metadata buffer of the data cache based on the cache growth instruction. The quantity of hash buckets in the hash bucket buffer is increased and the background hash bucket growth process is initiated, wherein the process is configured to rehash hash bucket entries of the hash…
Common volume representation in a virtualized computing system
Granted: August 6, 2024
Patent Number:
12056354
An example method of providing a common volume (cVol) datastore for virtual machines (VMs) managed by a hypervisor in a virtualized computing system is described. The method includes: mounting, by the hypervisor, a network file system share of a common volume (cVol), the cVol stored in shared storage of the virtualized computing system, the network file system share storing metadata for the VMs; creating a file system for the cVol datastore backed by the network file system share;…
Methods and systems that identify computational-entity transactions and corresponding log/event-message traces from streams and/or collections of log/event messages
Granted: August 6, 2024
Patent Number:
12056098
The current document is directed to methods and systems that automatically identify log/event-message traces and computational-entity transactions within collections and/or streams of log/event messages. Automated identification of log/event-message traces provides the basis for automated interpretation, by automated computer-system administration-and-the management subsystems, of the information represented by collections and/or streams of log/event messages. Disclosed approaches to…
