Multi-tenant-cloud-aggregation and application-support system
Granted: December 26, 2023
Patent Number:
11856050
The present application is directed to a distributed system that provides multi-cloud aggregation and that includes a cloud-connector server, cloud-connector nodes, and one or more service-provider nodes that cooperate to provide services that are distributed across multiple clouds. A service-provider node obtains tenant-associated information from a virtual data center in which the service-provider node is installed and provides the tenant-associated information to the cloud-connector…
Tagging packets for monitoring and analysis
Granted: December 26, 2023
Patent Number:
11855862
Some embodiments provide a method for performing data traffic monitoring. The method processes a packet through a packet processing pipeline that includes multiple stages. At a filtering stage, the method tags the packet with a set of monitoring actions for subsequent stages to perform on the packet based on a determination that the packet matches a particular filter. For each stage of a set of packet processing stages subsequent to the filtering stage, the method (i) executes any…
Device-driven management workflow status and impact
Granted: December 26, 2023
Patent Number:
11855833
Examples of device-driven management are described. A management service can transmit a device-driven management workflow to a number of client devices. The device-driven management workflow can include workflow objects that define a branching sequence of instructions. The client devices can provide a corresponding plurality of completion statuses for a step of the device-driven management workflow. The management service can identify a failure of the step according to a set of failure…
Deploying firewall for virtual network defined over public cloud infrastructure
Granted: December 26, 2023
Patent Number:
11855805
Some embodiments establish for an entity a virtual network over several public clouds of several public cloud providers and/or in several regions. In some embodiments, the virtual network is an overlay network that spans across several public clouds to interconnect one or more private networks (e.g., networks within branches, divisions, departments of the entity or their associated datacenters), mobile users, and SaaS (Software as a Service) provider machines, and other web applications…
Managed virtual appliances
Granted: December 26, 2023
Patent Number:
11853788
Disclosed are various embodiments for creating and managing virtual appliances. A command to create a virtual machine image for a hosted instance of an application image is received. The virtual machine image is created in response to receiving the command. The virtual machine image can include an operating system; a container orchestration service configured to host the instance of the application image; and a configuration service. The configuration service can be configured to at…
Methods and systems that share resources among multiple, interdependent release pipelines
Granted: December 26, 2023
Patent Number:
11853748
The current document is directed to automated application-release-management facilities that, in a described implementation, coordinate continuous development and release of cloud-computing applications. The application-release-management process is specified, in the described implementation, by application-release-management pipelines, each pipeline comprising one or more stages, with each stage comprising one or more tasks. The currently described methods and systems allow resources to…
Network visualization of correlations between logical elements and associated physical elements
Granted: December 19, 2023
Patent Number:
11848825
Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for providing a visualization of a topology for a logical network implemented in a physical network. The method identifies a set of logical elements of the logical network. For each logical element, the method identifies a set of one or more physical elements in the physical network that implements the logical element. Multiple physical elements are identified for at least one of the logical elements. Through a user interface (UI) the…
Failover prevention in a high availability system during traffic congestion
Granted: December 19, 2023
Patent Number:
11848995
In some embodiments, a method detects a state of a first session between a first workload and a second workload. The first workload and the second workload send packets in the first session via a first path to maintain a state of the first session. When the state of the first session indicates the first workload is down, the method receives information for network metrics of network traffic being sent in the first path. The method determines when the second workload should transition…
Selection of paired transmit queue
Granted: December 19, 2023
Patent Number:
11848869
Some embodiments provide a method for selecting a transmit queue of a network interface card (NIC) of a host computer for an outbound data message. The NIC includes multiple transmit queues and multiple receive queues. Each of the transmit queues is individually associated with a different receive queue, and the MC performs a load balancing operation to distribute inbound data messages among multiple receive queues. The method extracts a set of header values from a header of the outbound…
System and method for operational intelligence based on network traffic
Granted: December 19, 2023
Patent Number:
11848833
System and computer-implemented method for analyzing software-defined data center (SDDC) components in a computing environment uses network traffic data, which is correlated with an inventory of SDDC components in the computing environment to calculate a metric collection parameter for each SDDC component in the computing environment based on data flow associated with that SDDC component. Relevant metrics from each of the SDDC components in the computing environment are collected…
Limiting blast radius for critical on-disk data corruptions in a distributed storage system
Granted: December 19, 2023
Patent Number:
11847033
System and method for managing distributed storage objects for host unavailability in a distributed storage system uses at least one of a crash indicator in a specific on-disk block and a paused object indicator for a distributed storage object to determine whether to perform data recovery for the distributed storage object. When the crash indicator is set or the paused object indicator implies that the distributed storage object is a paused object, the distributed storage object is left…
Distributed auto discovery service
Granted: December 19, 2023
Patent Number:
11848824
Methods and systems are described for a distributed auto discovery service for device enrollment. In an example, a user device enrolling in a Unified Endpoint Management (“UEM”) system can receive an email address. The enrolling user device can identify, on a local network that the enrolling user device is connected to, other user devices that are already enrolled with the UEM system. The unenrolled user device can send a discovery request to the enrolled user devices that includes…
Methods and apparatus to determine container priorities in virtualized computing environments
Granted: December 19, 2023
Patent Number:
11848821
An example system includes memory, programmable circuitry, and machine readable instructions to program the programmable circuitry to: obtain utilization metric information corresponding to utilization metrics collected over a time interval, the utilization metrics corresponding to allocated resources utilized by containers, the containers associated with a cluster, obtain a request to generate priority classes for the containers in the cluster, the priority classes indicative of which…
Connecting virtual computer networks with overlapping IP addresses using transit virtual computer network
Granted: December 19, 2023
Patent Number:
11848800
A system and method for connecting virtual computer networks in a public cloud computing environment using a transit virtual computer network uses a cloud gateway device in the transit virtual computer network that includes a first-tier logical router and a plurality of second-tier logical routers connected to the virtual computer networks. A source Internet Protocol (IP) address of outgoing data packets from a particular virtual computer network is translated at a particular second-tier…
Request handling with automatic scheduling
Granted: December 19, 2023
Patent Number:
11848769
Example methods and systems for request handling with automatic scheduling are described. In one example, a computer system may receive, from multiple client devices, respective multiple requests that are generated and sent according to a first set of control parameters. Based on the multiple requests, request characteristic(s) may be monitored to determine whether an automatic scheduling condition is satisfied. In response to determination that the automatic scheduling condition is…
Per-window digital watermark for desktop applications
Granted: December 19, 2023
Patent Number:
11847718
Embodiments are described for placing a watermark over application windows in a desktop. For each application window that is opened in the desktop, the system can determine whether the application requires a watermark, for example, based on a predefined list that specifies which applications require watermarks. For each application window that requires a watermark, a uncovered watermark region can be calculated where the watermark will appear. An overlay can be placed over the…
Network-efficient isolation environment redistribution
Granted: December 19, 2023
Patent Number:
11847485
Network-efficient isolation environment redistribution is described. In one example, network communications are surveyed among isolation environments, such as virtual machines (VMs) and containers, hosted on a cluster. An affinity for network communications between the isolation environments can be identified based on the survey. Pairs or groups of the isolation environments can be examined to identify ones which have an affinity for network communications between them but are also…
Virtual machine image management using delta trees
Granted: December 19, 2023
Patent Number:
11847484
Redo logs are used to facilitate efficient cloning of virtual machines. When a virtual machine with a virtual hard disk is to be cloned, two redo logs are created, both of which are linked to the virtual hard disk. The virtual machine being cloned is then linked to one redo log, and a newly created virtual machine is linked to the other. Each time an additional virtual machine is created, two new redo logs are created and linked to the end of the disk chain. The parent and newly created…
Distributed resource scheduler as a service
Granted: December 19, 2023
Patent Number:
11847482
Methods and systems for balancing resources in a virtual machine computing environment are disclosed. A server can receive data illustrating the configuration of host machines and virtual machines in client computing environment. A simulated computing environment can be created that mirrors the configuration of the client computing environment. Data relating to resource usage (e.g., processor, memory, and storage) of the host machines can be received. The resource usage can be simulated…
System and method for content scanning using sparse files
Granted: December 19, 2023
Patent Number:
11847221
System and method for executing scan operations on computing systems use a sparse file that represents a storage device of a computing system to scan a file stored in the storage device. The sparse file is created and mounted to a scanner appliance such that the sparse file appears to a scan engine of the scanner appliance as a local storage device. When a read request for the file stored in the storage device is issued from the scan engine that results in an implicit read request to the…
