Patents by Inventor Govind HARIDAS

Govind HARIDAS 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).

  • Publication number: 20240028322
    Abstract: An example method of upgrading remote sites of a distributed container orchestration system includes: deploying, by upgrade software executing in a data center remote from the remote sites, a second container orchestration (CO) control plane executing concurrently with a first CO control plane, the second CO control plane having a second version different than a first version of the first CO control plane, the first CO control plane initially managing all of the remote sites; upgrading, by the upgrade software, CO support software of a first portion of the remote sites; adding, by the upgrade software, the first portion of the remote sites to a second CO cluster managed by the second CO control plane; and removing, by the upgrade software, the first portion of the remote sites from a first CO cluster managed by the first CO control plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Weiqing WU, Uday Suresh MASUREKAR, Liang CUI, Govind HARIDAS, Narendra Kumar BASUR SHANKARAPPA
  • Publication number: 20240028370
    Abstract: An example method of diagnosing remote sites of a distributed container orchestration system includes: receiving, at a management cluster, definition of a test suite custom resource; deploying, in response to the test suite custom resource, a first pod in the management cluster; deploying, by the first pod, a second pod in a server of a first remote site of the remote sites; checking, by the second pod, configuration of the server that includes an additional pod executing alongside the second pod, at least one virtual machine (VM) in which the second pod and the additional pod execute, a hypervisor configured to support the at least one VM, and a hardware platform on which the hypervisor executes; and returning test data from the second pod to the first pod, the test data including results of the step of checking the configuration of the server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Jian LAN, Liang CUI, Qi WANG, Aravind SRINIVASAN, Todd SABIN, Govind HARIDAS, Weiqing WU, Uday Suresh MASUREKAR, Wenwu PENG, Ni LU
  • Patent number: 11005963
    Abstract: Connectivity between data centers in a hybrid cloud system is optimized by pre-loading a wide area network (WAN) optimization appliance in a first data center with data to initialize at least one WAN optimization of application. The first data center is managed by a first organization and a second data center managed by a second organization, the first organization being a tenant in the second data center. The described technique includes receiving application packets having the application data generated by an application executing in the first data center at the WAN optimization appliance from a first gateway in the first data center, and performing the at least one WAN optimization on the application packets using the pre-loaded data to initialize the at least one WAN optimization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Serge Maskalik, Govind Haridas, Weiqing Wu, Aravind Srinivasan, Sachin Thakkar
  • Patent number: 10735452
    Abstract: A method of transferring a virtual machine between a virtualized computing system and a cloud computing system includes determining that a virtual machine is to be transferred from a virtualized computing system to a cloud computing system and determining a connection between a first resource in the virtualized computing system and a second resource in the cloud computing system. Files that enable implementation of the virtual machine at the virtualized computing system and identified, as are file portions of the files for transfer from the virtualized computing system to the cloud computing system. At least one compliance check is executed on each of the file portions using at least one compliance checker. Each of the file portions that fails a compliance check is blocked from being maintained in the cloud computing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Sachin Thakkar, Serge Maskalik, Debashis Basak, Allwyn Sequeira, Govind Haridas
  • Patent number: 10375170
    Abstract: Techniques for upgrading virtual appliances in a hybrid cloud computing system are provided. In one embodiment, virtual appliances are upgraded by deploying the upgraded appliances in both a data center and a cloud, configuring the upgraded appliances to have the same IP addresses as original appliances, and disconnecting the original appliances from networks to which they are connected and connecting the upgraded appliances to those networks via the same ports previously used by the original appliances. In another embodiment, upgraded appliances are deployed in the data center and the cloud, but configured with new IP addresses that are different from those of the original appliances, and connections are switched from those of the original appliances to new connections with the new IP addresses. Embodiments disclosed herein permit virtual appliances to be upgraded or replaced with relatively little downtime so as to help minimize disruptions to existing traffic flows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Narendra Kumar Basur Shankarappa, Aravind Srinivasan, Sachin Thakkar, Serge Maskalik, Govind Haridas
  • Patent number: 10375153
    Abstract: A cloud computing system retrieves routing entries associated with a particular tenant of the cloud computing system and a subset of a routing table of the entire cloud computing system. The routing entries are loaded into a networking switch, which is configured to route network packets using the loaded subset of routing entries, using a general-purpose processor rather than a costly dedicated ASIC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Serge Maskalik, Weiqing Wu, Debashis Basak, Sachin Thakkar, Govind Haridas
  • Publication number: 20180302429
    Abstract: A method of transferring a virtual machine between a virtualized computing system and a cloud computing system includes determining that a virtual machine is to be transferred from a virtualized computing system to a cloud computing system and determining a connection between a first resource in the virtualized computing system and a second resource in the cloud computing system. Files that enable implementation of the virtual machine at the virtualized computing system and identified, as are file portions of the files for transfer from the virtualized computing system to the cloud computing system. At least one compliance check is executed on each of the file portions using at least one compliance checker. Each of the file portions that fails a compliance check is blocked from being maintained in the cloud computing system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Applicant: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Sachin Thakkar, Serge Maskalik, Debashis Basak, Allwyn Sequeira, Govind Haridas
  • Publication number: 20180288136
    Abstract: A cloud computing system retrieves routing entries associated with a particular tenant of the cloud computing system and a subset of a routing table of the entire cloud computing system. The routing entries are loaded into a networking switch, which is configured to route network packets using the loaded subset of routing entries, using a general-purpose processor rather than a costly dedicated ASIC.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Serge Maskalik, Weiqing Wu, Debashis Basak, Sachin Thakkar, Govind Haridas
  • Patent number: 10009368
    Abstract: A method of transferring a virtual machine between a virtualized computing system and a cloud computing system includes determining that a virtual machine is to be transferred from a virtualized computing system to a cloud computing system and determining a connection between a first resource in the virtualized computing system and a second resource in the cloud computing system. Files that enable implementation of the virtual machine at the virtualized computing system and identified, as are file portions of the files for transfer from the virtualized computing system to the cloud computing system. At least one compliance check is executed on each of the file portions using at least one compliance checker. Each of the file portions that fails a compliance check is blocked from being maintained in the cloud computing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Sachin Thakkar, Serge Maskalik, Debashis Basak, Allwyn Sequeira, Govind Haridas
  • Patent number: 9992272
    Abstract: A cloud computing system retrieves routing entries associated with a particular tenant of the cloud computing system and are a subset of a routing table of the entire cloud computing system. The routing entries are loaded into a networking switch, which is configured to route network packets using the loaded subset of routing entries, using a general-purpose processor rather than a costly dedicated ASIC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Serge Maskalik, Weiqing Wu, Debashis Basak, Sachin Thakkar, Govind Haridas
  • Publication number: 20180063074
    Abstract: Techniques for upgrading virtual appliances in a hybrid cloud computing system are provided. In one embodiment, virtual appliances are upgraded by deploying the upgraded appliances in both a data center and a cloud, configuring the upgraded appliances to have the same IP addresses as original appliances, and disconnecting the original appliances from networks to which they are connected and connecting the upgraded appliances to those networks via the same ports previously used by the original appliances. In another embodiment, upgraded appliances are deployed in the data center and the cloud, but configured with new IP addresses that are different from those of the original appliances, and connections are switched from those of the original appliances to new connections with the new IP addresses. Embodiments disclosed herein permit virtual appliances to be upgraded or replaced with relatively little downtime so as to help minimize disruptions to existing traffic flows.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: Narendra Kumar Basur SHANKARAPPA, Aravind SRINIVASAN, Sachin THAKKAR, Serge MASKALIK, Govind HARIDAS
  • Publication number: 20170134420
    Abstract: A method of transferring a virtual machine between a virtualized computing system and a cloud computing system includes determining that a virtual machine is to be transferred from a virtualized computing system to a cloud computing system and determining a connection between a first resource in the virtualized computing system and a second resource in the cloud computing system. Files that enable implementation of the virtual machine at the virtualized computing system and identified, as are file portions of the files for transfer from the virtualized computing system to the cloud computing system. At least one compliance check is executed on each of the file portions using at least one compliance checker. Each of the file portions that fails a compliance check is blocked from being maintained in the cloud computing system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Inventors: Sachin THAKKAR, Serge MASKALIK, Debashis BASAK, Allwyn SEQUEIRA, Govind HARIDAS
  • Publication number: 20170064030
    Abstract: Connectivity between data centers in a hybrid cloud system is optimized by pre-loading a wide area network (WAN) optimization appliance in a first data center with data to initialize at least one WAN optimization of application. The first data center is managed by a first organization and a second data center managed by a second organization, the first organization being a tenant in the second data center. The described technique includes receiving application packets having the application data generated by an application executing in the first data center at the WAN optimization appliance from a first gateway in the first data center, and performing the at least one WAN optimization on the application packets using the pre-loaded data to initialize the at least one WAN optimization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Serge MASKALIK, Govind HARIDAS, Weiqing WU, Aravind SRINIVASAN, Sachin THAKKAR
  • Publication number: 20170063687
    Abstract: A cloud computing system retrieves routing entries associated with a particular tenant of the cloud computing system and are a subset of a routing table of the entire cloud computing system. The routing entries are loaded into a networking switch, which is configured to route network packets using the loaded subset of routing entries, using a general-purpose processor rather than a costly dedicated ASIC.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Serge MASKALIK, Weiqing WU, Debashis BASAK, Sachin THAKKAR, Govind HARIDAS
  • Patent number: 9553887
    Abstract: One or more examples provide a method of transferring a virtual machine between a virtualized computing system and a cloud computing system that includes: establishing connection between a first resource in the virtualized computing system and a second resource in the cloud computing system to transfer files that implement the virtual machine from the first resource to the second resource; accessing, for transmission over the connection, data blocks on a storage device in the virtualized computing system that include the files; executing at least one compliance check on each of the data blocks using at least one compliance checker; and preventing each of the data blocks that fails a compliance check from being maintained in the cloud computing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Sachin Thakkar, Serge Maskalik, Debashis Basak, Allwyn Sequeira, Govind Haridas
  • Publication number: 20160105456
    Abstract: One or more examples provide a method of transferring a virtual machine between a virtualized computing system and a cloud computing system that includes: establishing connection between a first resource in the virtualized computing system and a second resource in the cloud computing system to transfer files that implement the virtual machine from the first resource to the second resource; accessing, for transmission over the connection, data blocks on a storage device in the virtualized computing system that include the files; executing at least one compliance check on each of the data blocks using at least one compliance checker; and preventing each of the data blocks that fails a compliance check from being maintained in the cloud computing system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Inventors: Sachin THAKKAR, Serge MASKALIK, Debashis BASAK, Allwyn SEQUEIRA, Govind HARIDAS