Extensible network configuration management

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9135050
APP PUB NO 20140115576A1
SERIAL NO

13655352

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Techniques are disclosed for a management application running on a virtualization management platform and a module on a virtual machine host to communicate via an opaque pass-through channel for transporting data through the management platform and intermediate layer(s) of the virtual machine host between the management application and the module. In one embodiment, the data is identified by a key which is unique across management applications and includes a namespace registered by the management application on the management platform and registered by the module on the virtual machine host. In another embodiment, the namespace may indicate an association of the data with one or more entities such as a distributed virtual switch, port groups, ports, and virtual machine hosts. Configuration property settings for an entity may be propagated to its sub-entities based on inheritance. Further, the data may be persisted in database(s) of the management platform and/or the intermediate layer(s).

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VMWARE LLC3421 HILLVIEW AVENUE PALO ALTO CA 94304

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Baphna, Mukesh Milpitas, US 13 222
Kothari, Piyush Palo Alto, US 15 376
Su, Chi-Hsiang Santa Clara, US 18 414

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