Patents by Inventor Sunil Vajir

Sunil Vajir has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11824929
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to using maintenance mode to upgrade a distributed system. One method includes determining that a first host of a cluster of a software-defined datacenter (SDDC) is to be upgraded as a part of a rolling upgrade of the hosts of the cluster, wherein the first host is executing a process instance of a cluster store, demoting the process instance to a proxy, creating a replica of the process instance using a different proxy on a second host of the cluster, instructing the first host to enter a maintenance mode, upgrading the first host, and instructing the first host to leave the maintenance mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Alkesh Shah, Ramses V. Morales, Leonid Livshin, Austin Kramer, Nitin Nagaraja, Brian Masao Oki, Sunil Vajir
  • Patent number: 11748222
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to health measurement and remediation of distributed systems upgrades. One method includes communicating a request for a health status to a cluster store provided by a cluster of hosts of a software-defined datacenter, wherein the cluster store includes a plurality of process instances undergoing a rolling upgrade, receiving a health status indication in response to the request, the health status indication determined based on a determination of whether the cluster store is available and a determination of whether the cluster store is operational, and taking a remediation action in response to the health status indication exceeding a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Ramses V. Morales, Alkesh Shah, Leonid Livshin, Austin Kramer, Nitin Nagaraja, Brian Masao Oki, Sunil Vajir
  • Patent number: 11722560
    Abstract: A method for reconciling host membership information in a data center. The method generally includes querying, by a remote management device configured to manage one or more host clusters in the data center, one or more cluster stores to retrieve first host membership information for each of the one or more host clusters, each cluster store being associated with a host cluster of the one or more host clusters, comparing second host membership information stored at the remote management device for the one or more host clusters to the first host membership information to identify one or more discrepancies between the second host membership information and the first host membership information, and updating the second host membership information such that the second host membership information is consistent with the first host membership information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: VMWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Alkesh Shah, Subhankar Biswas, Leonid Livshin, Brian Masao Oki, Sunil Vajir
  • Publication number: 20230131052
    Abstract: A method for reconciling host membership information in a data center. The method generally includes querying, by a remote management device configured to manage one or more host clusters in the data center, one or more cluster stores to retrieve first host membership information for each of the one or more host clusters, each cluster store being associated with a host cluster of the one or more host clusters, comparing second host membership information stored at the remote management device for the one or more host clusters to the first host membership information to identify one or more discrepancies between the second host membership information and the first host membership information, and updating the second host membership information such that the second host membership information is consistent with the first host membership information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Alkesh SHAH, Subhankar BISWAS, Leonid LIVSHIN, Brian Masao OKI, Sunil VAJIR
  • Publication number: 20230029943
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to health measurement and remediation of distributed systems upgrades. One method includes communicating a request for a health status to a cluster store provided by a cluster of hosts of a software-defined datacenter, wherein the cluster store includes a plurality of process instances undergoing a rolling upgrade, receiving a health status indication in response to the request, the health status indication determined based on a determination of whether the cluster store is available and a determination of whether the cluster store is operational, and taking a remediation action in response to the health status indication exceeding a threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Ramses V. Morales, Alkesh Shah, Leonid Livshin, Austin Kramer, Nitin Nagaraja, Brian Masao Oki, Sunil Vajir
  • Publication number: 20230023625
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to using maintenance mode to upgrade a distributed system. One method includes determining that a first host of a cluster of a software-defined datacenter (SDDC) is to be upgraded as a part of a rolling upgrade of the hosts of the cluster, wherein the first host is executing a process instance of a cluster store, demoting the process instance to a proxy, creating a replica of the process instance using a different proxy on a second host of the cluster, instructing the first host to enter a maintenance mode, upgrading the first host, and instructing the first host to leave the maintenance mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Alkesh Shah, Ramses V. Morales, Leonid Livshin, Austin Kramer, Nitin Nagaraja, Brian Masao Oki, Sunil Vajir
  • Patent number: 11412040
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to using maintenance mode to upgrade a distributed system. One method includes determining that a first host of a cluster of a software-defined datacenter (SDDC) is to be upgraded as a part of a rolling upgrade of the hosts of the cluster, wherein the first host is executing a process instance of a cluster store, demoting the process instance to a proxy, creating a replica of the process instance using a different proxy on a second host of the cluster, instructing the first host to enter a maintenance mode, upgrading the first host, and instructing the first host to leave the maintenance mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Alkesh Shah, Ramses V. Morales, Leonid Livshin, Austin Kramer, Nitin Nagaraja, Brian Masao Oki, Sunil Vajir