Patents by Inventor Vishnu Mohan Sekhar
Vishnu Mohan Sekhar 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).
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Patent number: 11762651Abstract: An image of a virtualization software and firmware in a plurality of hosts are upgraded by performing the steps of: in response to a user input, generating a software specification that specifies a desired state of the virtualization software and a desired state of the firmware; based on the software specification, preparing a desired image of the virtualization software that includes software components of a desired version of the firmware; and coordinating an upgrade to the desired image of the virtualization software and the desired version of the firmware in the hosts. The upgrade includes an upgrade in each of the hosts to the desired version of the firmware, and an upgrade in each of the hosts to the desired image of the virtualization software that includes the software components of the desired version of the base image and the software components of the desired version of the firmware.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2022Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: VMware, Inc.Inventors: Patrick William Penzias Dirks, Aravinda Haryadi, Mukund Gunti, Vishnu Mohan Sekhar, Naga Ullas Vankayala Harinathagupta
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Patent number: 11748094Abstract: The disclosure provides an approach for a non-disruptive system upgrade. Embodiments include installing an upgraded version of an operating system (OS) on a computing system while a current version of the OS continues to run. Embodiments include entering a maintenance mode on the computing system, including preventing the addition of new applications and modifying the handling of storage operations on the computing system for the duration of the maintenance mode. Embodiments include, during the maintenance mode, configuring the upgraded version of the OS. Embodiments include, after configuring the upgraded version of the OS, suspending a subset of applications running on the computing system, transferring control over resources of the computing system to the upgraded version of the OS, and resuming the subset of the applications running on the computing system. Embodiments include exiting the maintenance mode on the computing system.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2023Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: VMWARE, INC.Inventors: Tobias Franz Rolf Stumpf, Ashish Kaila, Adrian Drzewiecki, Vishnu Mohan Sekhar, Stanley Zhang
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Publication number: 20230153106Abstract: The disclosure provides an approach for a non-disruptive system upgrade. Embodiments include installing an upgraded version of an operating system (OS) on a computing system while a current version of the OS continues to run. Embodiments include entering a maintenance mode on the computing system, including preventing the addition of new applications and modifying the handling of storage operations on the computing system for the duration of the maintenance mode. Embodiments include, during the maintenance mode, configuring the upgraded version of the OS. Embodiments include, after configuring the upgraded version of the OS, suspending a subset of applications running on the computing system, transferring control over resources of the computing system to the upgraded version of the OS, and resuming the subset of the applications running on the computing system. Embodiments include exiting the maintenance mode on the computing system.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2023Publication date: May 18, 2023Inventors: Tobias Franz Rolf STUMPF, Ashish KAILA, Adrian DRZEWIECKI, Vishnu Mohan SEKHAR, Stanley ZHANG
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Patent number: 11567754Abstract: The disclosure provides an approach for a non-disruptive system upgrade. Embodiments include installing an upgraded version of an operating system (OS) on a computing system while a current version of the OS continues to run. Embodiments include entering a maintenance mode on the computing system, including preventing the addition of new applications and modifying the handling of storage operations on the computing system for the duration of the maintenance mode. Embodiments include, during the maintenance mode, configuring the upgraded version of the OS. Embodiments include, after configuring the upgraded version of the OS, suspending a subset of applications running on the computing system, transferring control over resources of the computing system to the upgraded version of the OS, and resuming the subset of the applications running on the computing system. Embodiments include exiting the maintenance mode on the computing system.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2021Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: VMWARE, INC.Inventors: Tobias Franz Rolf Stumpf, Ashish Kaila, Adrian Drzewiecki, Vishnu Mohan Sekhar, Stanley Zhang
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Publication number: 20220276858Abstract: The disclosure provides an approach for a non-disruptive system upgrade. Embodiments include installing an upgraded version of an operating system (OS) on a computing system while a current version of the OS continues to run. Embodiments include entering a maintenance mode on the computing system, including preventing the addition of new applications and modifying the handling of storage operations on the computing system for the duration of the maintenance mode. Embodiments include, during the maintenance mode, configuring the upgraded version of the OS. Embodiments include, after configuring the upgraded version of the OS, suspending a subset of applications running on the computing system, transferring control over resources of the computing system to the upgraded version of the OS, and resuming the subset of the applications running on the computing system. Embodiments include exiting the maintenance mode on the computing system.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2021Publication date: September 1, 2022Inventors: TOBIAS FRANZ ROLF STUMPF, Ashish Kaila, Adrian Drzewiecki, Vishnu Mohan Sekhar, Stanley Zhang
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Publication number: 20220244943Abstract: An image of a virtualization software and firmware in a plurality of hosts are upgraded by performing the steps of: in response to a user input, generating a software specification that specifies a desired state of the virtualization software and a desired state of the firmware; based on the software specification, preparing a desired image of the virtualization software that includes software components of a desired version of the firmware; and coordinating an upgrade to the desired image of the virtualization software and the desired version of the firmware in the hosts. The upgrade includes an upgrade in each of the hosts to the desired version of the firmware, and an upgrade in each of the hosts to the desired image of the virtualization software that includes the software components of the desired version of the base image and the software components of the desired version of the firmware.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2022Publication date: August 4, 2022Inventors: PATRICK WILLIAM PENZIAS DIRKS, ARAVINDA HARYADI, MUKUND GUNTI, VISHNU MOHAN SEKHAR, NAGA ULLAS VANKAYALA HARINATHAGUPTA
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Patent number: 11327738Abstract: An image of a virtualization software and firmware in a plurality of hosts are upgraded by performing the steps of: in response to a user input, generating a software specification that specifies a desired state of the virtualization software and a desired state of the firmware; based on the software specification, preparing a desired image of the virtualization software that includes software components of a desired version of the firmware; and from a virtual machine management server that is programmed to deploy virtual machines in the hosts, coordinating an upgrade to the desired image of the virtualization software and the desired version of the firmware in the hosts by (1) instructing a hardware support manager to upgrade the hosts to the desired version of the firmware, and (2) instructing each of the hosts to upgrade to the desired image of the virtualization software.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2020Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: VMWARE, INC.Inventors: Patrick William Penzias Dirks, Aravinda Haryadi, Mukund Gunti, Vishnu Mohan Sekhar, Naga Ullas Vankayala Harinathagupta
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Publication number: 20210311715Abstract: An image of a virtualization software and firmware in a plurality of hosts are upgraded by performing the steps of: in response to a user input, generating a software specification that specifies a desired state of the virtualization software and a desired state of the firmware; based on the software specification, preparing a desired image of the virtualization software that includes software components of a desired version of the firmware; and from a virtual machine management server that is programmed to deploy virtual machines in the hosts, coordinating an upgrade to the desired image of the virtualization software and the desired version of the firmware in the hosts by (1) instructing a hardware support manager to upgrade the hosts to the desired version of the firmware, and (2) instructing each of the hosts to upgrade to the desired image of the virtualization software.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2020Publication date: October 7, 2021Inventors: PATRICK WILLIAM PENZIAS DIRKS, ARAVINDA HARYADI, MUKUND GUNTI, VISHNU MOHAN SEKHAR, NAGA ULLAS VANKAYALA HARINATHAGUPTA
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Patent number: 10348574Abstract: Hardware management systems for disaggregated rack architectures in virtual server rack deployments are disclosed herein. An example apparatus to manage disaggregated physical hardware resources in a physical rack includes a hardware management system to discover disaggregated physical hardware resources in the physical rack and generate a listing of the disaggregated physical hardware resources, and a physical resource manager to generate a composed resource based on resources from the listing of the disaggregated physical hardware resources, the hardware management system to manage the composed resource.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2016Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: VMWARE, INC.Inventors: Rahul Kulkarni, Vishnu Mohan Sekhar, Mukund Gunti, Raj Yavatkar, Donald Newell, Thayumanavan Sridhar
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Publication number: 20170054603Abstract: Hardware management systems for disaggregated rack architectures in virtual server rack deployments are disclosed herein. An example apparatus to manage disaggregated physical hardware resources in a physical rack includes a hardware management system to discover disaggregated physical hardware resources in the physical rack and generate a listing of the disaggregated physical hardware resources, and a physical resource manager to generate a composed resource based on resources from the listing of the disaggregated physical hardware resources, the hardware management system to manage the composed resource.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2016Publication date: February 23, 2017Inventors: Rahul Kulkarni, Vishnu Mohan Sekhar, Mukund Gunti, Raj Yavatkar, Donald Newell, Thayumanavan Sridhar
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Patent number: 7840790Abstract: In a virtualization computer system, a method and system that does not exclusively allocate I/O devices, for example, storage and networking devices, to a commodity operating system (COS) when mainly used for booting the virtualization system. Those I/O devices needed by the COS are accessed via virtual machine kernel drivers, thereby giving the COS the benefits of operation derived from features in the virtual machine kernel that is provided for these I/O devices.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2007Date of Patent: November 23, 2010Assignee: VMware, Inc.Inventors: Vishnu Mohan Sekhar, Greg Hutchins, Shaw Cheng Chuang