Validation-based service request handling
Granted: October 22, 2024
Patent Number:
12126593
Example methods and systems for validation-based service request handling are described. In one example, a computer system may obtain, from a management entity, configuration information specifying a unicast service address associated with a service node capable of providing a network service. In response to detecting a service request from the virtualized computing instance, the computer system may generate a modified service request that (a) is destined for the unicast service address…
Distributed policy-based provisioning and enforcement for quality of service
Granted: October 22, 2024
Patent Number:
12126536
Embodiments of the disclosure provide techniques for measuring congestion and controlling quality of service to a shared resource. A module that interfaces with the shared resource monitors the usage of the shared resource by accessing clients. Upon detecting that the rate of usage of the shared resource has exceeded a maximum rate supported by the shared resource, the module determines and transmits a congestion metric to clients that are currently attempting to access the shared…
Network function placement in vGPU-enabled environments
Granted: October 22, 2024
Patent Number:
12124867
Disclosed are aspects of network function placement in virtual graphics processing unit (vGPU)-enabled environments. In one example a network function request is associated with a network function. A scheduler selects a vGPU-enabled GPU to handle the network function request. The vGPU-enabled GPU is selected in consideration of a network function memory requirement or a network function IO requirement. The network function request is processed using an instance of the network function…
Method and system to process data delete in virtualized computing
Granted: October 22, 2024
Patent Number:
12124734
Example methods and systems to process input/output (I/O) requests in a distributed storage system in a virtualized computing environment are disclosed. One example method includes executing a first thread to destage one or more data writes, wherein the one or more data writes correspond to a first bucket; executing a second thread to destage the one or more data deletes, wherein the one or more data deletes correspond to a second bucket; in response to executing the first thread,…
Resiliency and performance for cluster memory
Granted: October 22, 2024
Patent Number:
12124715
Disclosed are various embodiments for improving resiliency and performance of clustered memory. A computing device can acquire a chunk of byte-addressable memory from a cluster memory host. The computing device can then identify an active set of allocated memory pages and an inactive set of allocated memory pages for a process executing on the computing device. Next, the computing device can store the active set of allocated memory pages for the process in the memory of the computing…
Efficient unmap handling using synchronized redundant components of data objects
Granted: October 22, 2024
Patent Number:
12124701
Components of a distributed data object are synchronized using streamlined tracking metadata. A target component of the distributed data object is detected as it becomes available and stale. A source component that is up-to-date and that mirrors the address space of the detected target component is identified. A set of mapped address ranges and a set of unmapped address ranges of the identified source component are obtained. A mapped address range of the target component that corresponds…
System and method to build a file reputation cache for an antivirus (AV) endpoint
Granted: October 22, 2024
Patent Number:
12124570
Example methods are provided to build a smart file reputation cache at a cloud, and to provide the smart file reputation cache to an antivirus (AV) endpoint such as a virtualized computing instance in a virtualized computing environment. Training techniques can be used to build the smart file reputation cache at the cloud, based on information learned from existing AV endpoints and a management server. The smart file reputation can then be provided to newly installed AV endpoints for…
Techniques for container scheduling in a virtual environment
Granted: October 15, 2024
Patent Number:
12118386
The present disclosure relates generally to virtualization, and more particularly to techniques for deploying containers in a virtual environment. The container scheduling can be based on information determined by a virtual machine scheduler. For example, a container scheduler can receive a request to deploy a container. The container scheduler can send container information to the virtual machine scheduler. The virtual machine scheduler can use the container information along with…
Defining services for virtual interfaces of workloads
Granted: October 15, 2024
Patent Number:
12120088
Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for deploying network elements for a set of machines in a set of one or more datacenters. The datacenter set is part of one availability zone in some embodiments. The method receives intent-based API (Application Programming Interface) requests, and parses these API requests to identify a set of network elements to connect and/or perform services for the set of machines. In some embodiments, the API is a hierarchical document that can…
Tenant-specific quality of service
Granted: October 15, 2024
Patent Number:
12120032
Some embodiments provide, for a gateway datapath that executes on a gateway device to implement tenant logical routers for multiple different tenant logical networks and process traffic between the tenant logical networks and an external network, a method for managing QoS for the plurality of tenant logical networks. The method receives a data message for a particular tenant logical network. The method executes a set of processing stages to process the data message. The set of processing…
Behavioral implementation of a double fault stack in a computer system
Granted: October 15, 2024
Patent Number:
12118362
An example method of exception handling in a computer system is described. The computer system includes a physical central processing unit (PCPU) and a system memory, the system memory storing a first stack, a second stack, and a double fault stack associated with the PCPU. The method includes: storing, by an exception handler executing in the computer system, an exception frame on the double fault stack in response to a stack overflow condition of the first stack; switching, by the…
Dynamic path selection of VPN endpoint
Granted: October 8, 2024
Patent Number:
12113773
Some embodiments provide a method that identifies multiple paths between a first site and a second site. A security association (SA) is established for transmitting encrypted payload from the first site to the second site in a virtual private network (VPN) session. The method selects a path based on metrics that are obtained for the paths. The selected path is defined by a first endpoint address of the first site and a second endpoint address of the second site. The method sends a…
Using hypervisor to provide virtual hardware accelerators in an O-RAN system
Granted: October 8, 2024
Patent Number:
12113678
Some embodiments provide various methods for offloading operations in an O-RAN (Open Radio Access Network) onto control plane (CP) or edge applications that execute on host computers with hardware accelerators in software defined datacenters (SDDCs). At the CP or edge application operating on a machine executing on a host computer with a hardware accelerator, the method of some embodiments receives data, from an O-RAN E2 unit, to perform an operation. The method uses a driver of the…
Methods and apparatus to manage monitoring agents
Granted: October 8, 2024
Patent Number:
12112190
Methods and apparatus to manage a dynamic deployment environment including one or more virtual machines. A disclosed example involves: (a) automatically scanning the virtual machines in the deployment environment to identify a service installed on any of the virtual machines; (b) automatically determining whether the identified service corresponds to a service monitoring rule; (c) when the service corresponds to the service monitoring rule, automatically determining whether a monitoring…
Efficient replication of file clones
Granted: October 8, 2024
Patent Number:
12111795
A method for managing replication of cloned files is provided. Embodiments include determining, at a source system, that a first file has been cloned to create a second file. Embodiments include sending, from the source system to a replica system, an address of the first extent and an indication that a status of the first extent has changed from non-cloned to cloned. Embodiments include changing, at the replica system, a status of a second extent associated with a replica of the first…
Aggregating block mapping metadata to improve linked clone read performance
Granted: October 8, 2024
Patent Number:
12111771
Linked clone read performance (e.g., retrieving data) is improved at least by minimizing the number of input/output (I/O) operations. For a child clone, a local logical extent and an inherited logical extent are generated. The local logical extent comprises a logical block address (LBA) for data in a data region of the child clone and a physical sector address (PSA) corresponding to the LBA for the data in the data region of the child clone. The inherited logical extent spans logical…
Migration of control planes across architectures
Granted: October 1, 2024
Patent Number:
12105597
The disclosure provides migration of control plane nodes across multiple architecture platforms. Embodiments include one or more processors configured to backup data of a source control plane node running on a first host, the first host having a first architecture platform, identify a second architecture platform of a second host, the second architecture platform being different than the first architecture platform, select a first control plane binary of a plurality of control plane…
Neural network model for predicting usage in a hyper-converged infrastructure
Granted: October 1, 2024
Patent Number:
12106203
Systems and methods for analyzing the usage of a set of workloads in a hyper-converged infrastructure are disclosed. A neural network model is trained based upon historical usage data of the set of workloads. The neural network model can make usage predictions of future demands on the set of workloads to minimize over-allocation or under-allocation of resources to the workloads.
Distributed autonomous lifecycle management of hypervisors in a virtualized computing system
Granted: October 1, 2024
Patent Number:
12106135
An example method of hypervisor lifecycle management in a virtualized computing system having a cluster of hosts is described. The method includes: obtaining, by remediation software executing in a host of the hosts, a host state document from a distributed key-value store, the host state document defining a desired state of software in the host, the software including a hypervisor; and performing, by the remediation software in coordination with other hosts of the hosts through the…
Context-aware data requests for a service in a distributed environment
Granted: October 1, 2024
Patent Number:
12105706
The disclosure provides an approach for database query management. Embodiments include receiving, by a service operating on a server, a request for data stored in a database. Embodiments also include determining, by the service, whether to handle the request as an internal request or an external request. Embodiments include, in response to determining to handle the request as an internal request: sending, by the service, a query for at least a portion of the data to the database;…
