Methods and apparatus to manage virtual machines
AssigneeVMware, Inc.
InventorsThirumalesh Reddy, Sreekantha Indireddy, Shreekanth Ankala, Bhavin Mathia
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Abstract
Methods and apparatus to manage virtual machines are disclosed. An example method includes determining that a deployment of a first virtual machine has halted because the first virtual machine is dependent on a second virtual machine that has not been fully deployed and in response to detecting that the second virtual machine has been deployed, notifying, via a processor, the first virtual machine that deployment of the first virtual machine may continue.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- initiating a deployment of a first virtual machine and a deployment of a second virtual machine;
- after the deployment of the first virtual machine has begun, determining, by executing computer readable instructions with a processor, that the deployment of the first virtual machine has halted because the deployment of the first virtual machine has reached a point at which the deployment of the first virtual machine is dependent on the second virtual machine that has not been fully deployed;
- detecting, by executing computer readable instructions with the processor, that the second virtual machine has been deployed;
- and
- in response to the determining that the second virtual machine has been deployed, continuing, by executing computer readable instructions with the processor, deployment of the first virtual machine.
An apparatus comprising:
- a non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions;
- and
- a logic circuit to execute the instructions to at least;
- initiate a deployment of a first virtual machine and a deployment of a second virtual machine;
- after the deployment of the first virtual machine has begun, determine that the deployment of the first virtual machine has halted because the deployment of the first virtual machine has reached a point at which the deployment of the first virtual machine is dependent on the second virtual machine that has not been fully deployed;
- detect that the second virtual machine has been deployed;
- and
- in response to determining that the second virtual machine has been deployed, continue deployment of the first virtual machine.
A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed, cause a machine to at least:
- initiate a deployment of a first virtual machine and a deployment of a second virtual machine;
- after the deployment of the first virtual machine has begun, determine that the deployment of the first virtual machine has halted because the deployment of the first virtual machine has reached a point at which the deployment of the first virtual machine is dependent on the second virtual machine that has not been fully deployed;
- detect that the second virtual machine has been deployed;
- and
- in response to determining that the second virtual machine has been deployed, continue deployment of the first virtual machine.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.