Identifying and remediating anomalies in a self-healing network
Granted: August 6, 2024
Patent Number:
12057993
Some embodiments of the invention provide a method of detecting and remediating anomalies in an SD-WAN implemented by multiple forwarding elements (FEs) located at multiple sites connected by the SD-WAN. The method receives, from the multiple FEs, multiple sets of flow data associated with application traffic that traverses the multiple FEs. The method uses a first set of machine-trained processes to analyze the multiple sets of flow data in order to identify at least one anomaly…
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…
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…
Related metrics-based monitoring of computing-instances
Granted: August 6, 2024
Patent Number:
12056039
In one example, a computing node includes a metric dependency graph knowledge base to store a data structure representing a relationship between a plurality of metrics. Further, the computing node may include a processor and a memory having a metric recommendation unit. The metric recommendation unit may determine a first metric of a monitored computing-instance while a user interacts with a GUI of a monitoring application. Further, the metric recommendation unit may retrieve the data…
Methods and systems for using machine learning to resolve performance problems with objects of a data center
Granted: August 6, 2024
Patent Number:
12056002
Automated computer-implemented methods and systems for resolving performance problems with objects executing in a data center are described. The automated methods use machine learning to obtain rules defining relationships between probabilities of event types of in log messages and performance problems identified by a key performance indictor (“KPI”) of the object. When a KPI violates a corresponding threshold, the rules are used to evaluate run time log messages that describe the…
Client telemetry framework for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)
Granted: July 30, 2024
Patent Number:
12052132
In one set of embodiments, a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) client running on a client device can receive first client-side data from a client telemetry service, where the first client-side data includes information pertaining to a current state of the client device. The VDI client can further retrieve second client-side data including information pertaining to the VDI client and/or a VDI session established between the VDI client and a VDI agent running on a server system, and can…
Personalized informational user experiences using visual content
Granted: July 30, 2024
Patent Number:
12052471
Disclosed are various examples for to generating personalized user experiences in the form of short-form videos that summarize informational topics that are selected to present to a user according at least one of a user context or a user interest. As the informational topics are identified for a given user, the informational topics can be applied as inputs to a recommendation model that is trained to recommend one or more of the topics to summarize and present to a user in visual form…
TLS server certificate replacement using a notification mechanism
Granted: July 30, 2024
Patent Number:
12052234
The present disclosure is related to devices, systems, and methods for TLS server certificate replacement using a notification mechanism. An example method can include establishing a first secure TLS connection between a client and a server verified by a first TLS certificate, creating a subscription for the client to receive a notification associated with a TLS certificate change, loading a second certificate to replace the first certificate, providing a notification to the client,…
Software-defined network recommendation
Granted: July 30, 2024
Patent Number:
12052185
The disclosure provides an approach for providing a software-defined networking recommendation. A method includes obtaining, by a network manager, existing network topology information for a set of one or more hosts. The method includes analyzing, by the network manager, the existing network topology information to identify usable network resources and to identify at least one virtual switch configuration common to the set of one or more hosts. The method includes generating, by the…
Clock calibration in a computing system using temperature sensors
Granted: July 30, 2024
Patent Number:
12052093
Described herein are systems, methods, and software to manage time calibration associated with an oscillator of a computing system. In one example, a computing system monitors clock cycles for an oscillator on the computing system, receives timing messages from a server, and calculates the frequency of the oscillator at intervals based on the monitored clock cycles and timing messages. The computing system further identifies a temperature from a temperature sensor at each of the…
System and method for migrating partial tree structures of virtual disks between sites using a compressed trie
Granted: July 30, 2024
Patent Number:
12050931
System and computer-implemented method for migrating partial tree structures of virtual disks for virtual computing instances between sites in a computer system uses a compressed trie, which is created from target tree structures of virtual disks at a plurality of target sites in the computer system. For a virtual computing instance selected, the compressed trie is used to find candidate target sites based on a disk chain string of the virtual computing instance. For each candidate…
Techniques for concurrently supporting virtual NUMA and CPU/memory hot-add in a virtual machine
Granted: July 30, 2024
Patent Number:
12050927
Techniques for concurrently supporting virtual non-uniform memory access (virtual NUMA) and CPU/memory hot-add in a virtual machine (VM) are provided. In one set of embodiments, a hypervisor of a host system can compute a node size for a virtual NUMA topology of the VM, where the node size indicates a maximum number of virtual central processing units (vCPUs) and a maximum amount of memory to be included in each virtual NUMA node. The hypervisor can further build and expose the virtual…
Journal space reservations for virtual disks in a virtualized computing system
Granted: July 30, 2024
Patent Number:
12050926
An example method of handling, at a hypervisor on a host in a virtualized computing system, a write input/output (IO) operation to a file on a storage device having a virtual machine file system (VMFS) is described. The method includes: generating logical transactions for the write IO operation having updates to metadata of the VMFS for the file; estimating, for the logical transactions, common space reservations for those of the updates to common fields in the metadata for the file;…
Global cache for container images in a clustered container host system
Granted: July 30, 2024
Patent Number:
12050814
Container images are managed in a clustered container host system with a shared storage device. Hosts of the system each include a virtualization software layer that supports execution of virtual machines (VMs), one or more of which are pod VMs that have implemented therein a container engine that supports execution of containers within the respective pod VM. A method of deploying containers includes determining, from pod objects published by a master device of the system and accessible…
Detecting malware campaigns based on analysis of composite time series of telemetry data
Granted: July 30, 2024
Patent Number:
12050684
The disclosure herein describes the detection of malware campaigns based on analysis of attributes of telemetry data. Telemetry data associated with malware campaign detection includes multiple attributes and is associated with a first time interval. Statistics of a target statistic set are calculated based on a composite time series of the multiple attributes of the telemetry data. The target set is compared to a historical statistic set based on a second time interval and, based on the…
Barcode-based enrollment of devices with a management service
Granted: July 23, 2024
Patent Number:
12045680
Various examples for providing an enrollment barcode to a staging client are provided. Enrollment data can be provided to a barcode service, which generates an enrollment barcode. Interpreting the enrollment barcode by a client device causes a management component installed on the client device to authenticate to a management service using a staging credential encrypted or secured in the enrollment barcode, and causes the enrollment of the client device with the management service.
Grouping route-based virtual private network interfaces in a virtualized computing system
Granted: July 23, 2024
Patent Number:
12047278
An example method of identifying an equal cost multipath (ECMP)-enabled route-based virtual private networks (RBVPN) in a virtualized computing system, comprises: obtaining, at a telemetry agent executing in an edge server of a data center, learned routes; identifying, by the telemetry agent from the routes, a destination network and a plurality of next hops associated therewith and a plurality of virtual tunnel interfaces (VTIs); identifying, by the telemetry agent for each of the…
RIC with a dedicated IO thread and multiple data processing threads
Granted: July 23, 2024
Patent Number:
12047245
To provide a low latency near RT RIC, some embodiments separate the RIC's functions into several different components that operate on different machines (e.g., execute on VMs or Pods) operating on the same host computer or different host computers. Some embodiments also provide high speed interfaces between these machines. Some or all of these interfaces operate in non-blocking, lockless manner in order to ensure that critical near RT RIC operations (e.g., datapath processes) are not…
Configuration management for co-management
Granted: July 23, 2024
Patent Number:
12047239
Various examples for discovering policy bindings between group policy rules in a legacy management framework and unified endpoint management rules that are utilized in a modern mobile device management (MDM) device management framework. A configuration state view can allow an administrator to understand inconsistencies or conflicts between group policy rules and UEM rules.
