Patents by Inventor Serge Maskalik

Serge Maskalik 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: 11843506
    Abstract: An example method of provisioning a network service in a cloud computing system includes: defining, at an orchestrator, the network service to include a plurality of network functions; defining, at the orchestrator, network connectivity among the plurality of network functions; identifying a plurality of vendor device managers (VDMs) configured to provision virtual network functions that implement the plurality of network functions; and instructing, by the orchestrator, the VDMs to deploy the virtual network functions having the defined network connectivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: VMWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Sachin Thakkar, Allwyn Sequeira, Serge Maskalik, Debashis Basak
  • Patent number: 11743115
    Abstract: A method of deploying a network service across a plurality of data centers, includes the steps of: in response to a request for or relating to a network service, identifying virtual network functions associated with the network service and determining network connectivity requirements of the virtual network functions, issuing commands to provision a virtual link between at least two of the data centers in which the virtual network functions are to be deployed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Sachin Thakkar, Abhinav Vijay Bhagwat, Weiqing Wu, Serge Maskalik, Uday Suresh Masurekar
  • Patent number: 11709698
    Abstract: A method of deploying a network service (NS) across multiple data centers includes identifying virtual network functions (VNFs) associated with the NS in response to a request for or relating to the NS, generating commands to deploy VNFs based on VNF descriptors, and issuing the commands to the data centers to deploy VNFs. The data centers each have a cloud management server in which cloud computing management software is run to provision virtual infrastructure resources thereof for a plurality of tenants. The cloud computing management software of a first data center is different from the cloud computing management software of a second data center, and the commands issued to the first and second data centers are each a generic command that is not in a command format of the cloud computing management software of either the first data center or the second data center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Sachin Thakkar, Allwyn M. Sequeira, Serge Maskalik, Debashis Basak, Akshatha Sathyanarayan
  • Publication number: 20230171152
    Abstract: An example method of provisioning a network service in a cloud computing system includes: defining, at an orchestrator, the network service to include a plurality of network functions; defining, at the orchestrator, network connectivity among the plurality of network functions; identifying a plurality of vendor device managers (VDMs) configured to provision virtual network functions that implement the plurality of network functions; and instructing, by the orchestrator, the VDMs to deploy the virtual network functions having the defined network connectivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Sachin THAKKAR, Allwyn SEQUEIRA, Serge MASKALIK, Debashis BASAK
  • Patent number: 11640315
    Abstract: A method of deploying a virtual network function of a network service in a data center having a cloud management server running a cloud computing management software to provision virtual infrastructure resources of the data center to at least one tenant, includes generating at least first and second API calls to the cloud computing management software in response to external commands received at the data center to deploy a virtual network function, and executing at least the first and second API calls by the cloud computing management software to deploy the virtual network function. The cloud computing management software creates at least one virtual machine by executing the first API call and at least one virtual disk by executing the second API call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Sachin Thakkar, Allwyn M. Sequeira, Serge Maskalik, Debashis Basak, Akshatha Sathyanarayan
  • Publication number: 20230094120
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method that generates (i) a node profile of a worker node in a workload cluster for deploying a first network function and (ii) a host profile of a virtual machine that implements the workload cluster and a management cluster that manages the workload cluster. The method updates a configuration map of the worker node based on the node profile. The method uses a node configuration operator in a remote data center to configure the worker node based on the configuration map. The method uses a virtual machine configuration operator in the remote data center to configure one or more nodes of the management cluster based on the host profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Narendra Kumar Basur Shankarappa, Serge Maskalik, Sachin Thakkar, Uday Suresh Masurekar, Leon Cui, Kiran Kumar Cherivirala, Sachin M. Bendigeri, Hemanth Kumar Pannem, Akshatha Sathyanarayan
  • Publication number: 20230100276
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method that generating a host profile for deploying a first network function. the method uses a virtual machine configuration operator in a remote data center to configure one or more virtual machines implementing a workload cluster to perform the first network function based on the host profile. The method uses the virtual machine configuration operator to configure one or more virtual machines implementing a management cluster based on the host profile. The workload cluster is managed by the management cluster.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Narendra Kumar Basur Shankarappa, Serge Maskalik, Sachin Thakkar, Uday Suresh Masurekar, Leon Cui, Kiran Kumar Cherivirala, Sachin M. Bendigeri, Hemanth Kumar Pannem, Akshatha Sathyanarayan
  • Publication number: 20230089342
    Abstract: A method of deploying a network service across a plurality of data centers, includes the steps of: in response to a request for or relating to a network service, identifying virtual network functions associated with the network service and determining network connectivity requirements of the virtual network functions, issuing commands to provision a virtual link between at least two of the data centers in which the virtual network functions are to be deployed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Sachin Thakkar, Abhinav Vijay Bhagwat, Weiqing Wu, Serge Maskalik, Uday Suresh Masurekar
  • Patent number: 11582090
    Abstract: An example method of provisioning a network service in a cloud computing system includes: defining, at an orchestrator, the network service to include a plurality of network functions; defining, at the orchestrator, network connectivity among the plurality of network functions; identifying a plurality of vendor device managers (VDMs) configured to provision virtual network functions that implement the plurality of network functions; and instructing, by the orchestrator, the VDMs to deploy the virtual network functions having the defined network connectivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: VMWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Sachin Thakkar, Allwyn Sequeira, Serge Maskalik, Debashis Basak
  • Patent number: 11546208
    Abstract: A method of deploying a network service across a plurality of data centers, includes the steps of: in response to a request for or relating to a network service, identifying virtual network functions associated with the network service and determining network connectivity requirements of the virtual network functions, issuing commands to provision a first virtual link between at least two of the data centers in which the virtual network functions are to be deployed, and issuing commands to provision a second virtual link to one of the data centers in which the virtual network functions are to be deployed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Sachin Thakkar, Abhinav Vijay Bhagwat, Weiqing Wu, Serge Maskalik, Uday Suresh Masurekar
  • Patent number: 11372664
    Abstract: Techniques disclosed herein relate to migrating virtual computing instances such as virtual machines (VMs). In one embodiment, VMs are migrated across different virtual infrastructure platforms by, among other things, translating between resource models used by virtual infrastructure managers (VIMs) that manage the different virtual infrastructure platforms. VM migrations may also be validated prior to being performed, including based on resource policies that define what is and/or is not allowed to migrate, thereby providing compliance and controls for borderless data centers. In addition, an agent-based technique may be used to migrate VMs and physical servers to virtual infrastructure, without requiring access to an underlying hypervisor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: VMWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Sachin Thakkar, Serge Maskalik, Allwyn Sequeira, Debashis Basak
  • Patent number: 11343161
    Abstract: A method of deploying a network service across multiple data centers, each having a cloud management server running a cloud computing management software to provision virtual infrastructure resources thereof for a first tenant among a plurality of tenants, includes maintaining for each data center static inventory data that indicate virtual infrastructure resources that are available thereat to the first tenant, identifying, in response to a network service request for the first tenant, a virtual network function associated with the network service, generating commands to deploy the virtual network function based on a descriptor of the virtual network function, selecting one of the data centers in which the virtual network function is to be deployed based on the descriptor of the virtual network function and the static inventory data of each data center, and issuing the commands to the selected data center to deploy the virtual network function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Sachin Thakkar, Allwyn M. Sequeira, Serge Maskalik, Debashis Basak, Mark Bryan Whipple
  • Patent number: 11340929
    Abstract: Techniques disclosed herein relate to migrating virtual computing instances such as virtual machines (VMs). In one embodiment, VMs are migrated across different virtual infrastructure platforms by, among other things, translating between resource models used by virtual infrastructure managers (VIMs) that manage the different virtual infrastructure platforms. VM migrations may also be validated prior to being performed, including based on resource policies that define what is and/or is not allowed to migrate, thereby providing compliance and controls for borderless data centers. In addition, an agent-based technique may be used to migrate VMs and physical servers to virtual infrastructure, without requiring access to an underlying hypervisor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: VMWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Allwyn Sequeira, Sachin Thakkar, Serge Maskalik, Debashis Basak, Mark Whipple
  • Patent number: 11245597
    Abstract: One or more examples provide techniques for providing a multi-site wide area network in a cloud computing system. In an example, a method of providing a multi-site wide area network (WAN) in a cloud computing system includes: creating a plurality of sites; creating a compute profile in each of the plurality of sites, each compute profile having a compute cluster of virtual machines (VMs); creating a service mesh having the compute profile of each of the plurality of sites; and deploying an application to the service mesh.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Serge Maskalik, Sachin Thakkar, Abhinav Vijay Bhagwat, Uday Masurekar, Weiqing Wu, Narendra Kumar Basur Shankarappa, Hemanth Kumar Pannem, Aravind Srinivasan
  • Publication number: 20210409453
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the invention provide a novel method for specifying firewall rules. In some embodiments, the method provides the ability to specify for a particular firewall rule, a set of network nodes (also called a set of enforcement points below) at which the particular firewall should be enforced. To provide this ability, the method of some embodiments adds an extra tuple (referred to below as the AppliedTo tuple) to a firewall rule. This added AppliedTo tuple lists the set of enforcement points at which the firewall rule has to be applied (i.e., enforced).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Kaushal Bansal, Uday Masurekar, Aravind Srinivasan, Shadab Shah, Serge Maskalik
  • Patent number: 11194608
    Abstract: Techniques disclosed herein relate to migrating virtual computing instances such as virtual machines (VMs). In one embodiment, VMs are migrated across different virtual infrastructure platforms by, among other things, translating between resource models used by virtual infrastructure managers (VIMs) that manage the different virtual infrastructure platforms. VM migrations may also be validated prior to being performed, including based on resource policies that define what is and/or is not allowed to migrate, thereby providing compliance and controls for borderless data centers. In addition, an agent-based technique may be used to migrate VMs and physical servers to virtual infrastructure, without requiring access to an underlying hypervisor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Allwyn Sequeira, Sachin Thakkar, Serge Maskalik, Debashis Basak, Mark Whipple
  • Patent number: 11184397
    Abstract: An example method of migrating a firewall policy between a first virtual data center and a second virtual data center includes: generating a static firewall from a firewall document at a first firewall server in the first virtual data center, the firewall document defining polices applied to groups of objects in the first virtual data center, the static firewall including firewall rule tuples; sending the static firewall from the first firewall server to a second firewall server in the second virtual data center; migrating a plurality of virtual machines (VMs) from the first virtual data center to the second virtual data center; and importing the firewall document from the first firewall server to the second firewall server by mapping the policies of the first firewall to groups of objects in an inventory of the second virtual data center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Bhaskar Subramanyam Annadata, Abhinav Vijay Bhagwat, Sachin Thakkar, Debashis Basak, Serge Maskalik
  • Publication number: 20210359945
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a novel method for load balancing data messages that are sent by a source compute node (SCN) to one or more different groups of destination compute nodes (DCNs). In some embodiments, the method deploys a load balancer in the source compute node's egress datapath. This load balancer receives each data message sent from the source compute node, and determines whether the data message is addressed to one of the DCN groups for which the load balancer spreads the data traffic to balance the load across (e.g., data traffic directed to) the DCNs in the group. When the received data message is not addressed to one of the load balanced DCN groups, the load balancer forwards the received data message to its addressed destination. On the other hand, when the received data message is addressed to one of load balancer's DCN groups, the load balancer identifies a DCN in the addressed DCN group that should receive the data message, and directs the data message to the identified DCN.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Jayant Jain, Anirban Sengupta, Mohan Parthasarathy, Allwyn Sequeira, Serge Maskalik, Rick Lund
  • Patent number: 11122085
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the invention provide a novel method for specifying firewall rules. In some embodiments, the method provides the ability to specify for a particular firewall rule, a set of network nodes (also called a set of enforcement points below) at which the particular firewall should be enforced. To provide this ability, the method of some embodiments adds an extra tuple (referred to below as the AppliedTo tuple) to a firewall rule. This added AppliedTo tuple lists the set of enforcement points at which the firewall rule has to be applied (i.e., enforced).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: NICIRA, INC.
    Inventors: Kaushal Bansal, Uday Masurekar, Aravind Srinivasan, Shadab Shah, Serge Maskalik
  • Publication number: 20210258254
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a network system. The network system includes a first set of host machines for hosting virtual machines that connect to each other through a logical network. The first set of host machines includes managed forwarding elements for forwarding data between the host machines. The network system includes a second set of host machines for hosting virtualized containers that operate as gateways for forwarding data between the virtual machines and an external network. At least one of the virtualized containers peers with at least one physical router in the external network in order to advertise addresses of the virtual machines to the physical router.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Ariel Tubaltsev, Ronghua Zhang, Benjamin C. Basler, Serge Maskalik, Rajiv Ramanathan, David J. Leroy, Srinivas Neginhal, Kai-Wei Fan, Ansis Atteka