US 2014/0229934 A1 · System Updates With Personal Virtual Disks

Abstract

A method and system for updating a collection of software resources in a virtual desktop infrastructure system. Virtual machines associated with sets of virtual disk elements in a hierarchy of disk layers, such as basic, department, or user virtual disks are offered updates for one or more available software resources. Updates available for deployment in the virtual desktop infrastructure system are recorded in a database by a controller server. The controller server takes an inventory of all the virtual machines associated with each disk layer in the hierarchy of disk layers on which to apply the available updates. The controller server applies the one or more updates to the identified virtual machines, and stores the update application results in a database. The controller server may apply the one or more updates to virtual machines associated with descendant disk layers in the hierarchy of disk layers in view of previous applications of the updates.

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Dependent claims

A method for updating a collection of software resources in a virtual desktop infrastructure system, the method comprising:

receiving a plurality of updates for one or more software resources;
identifying a plurality of virtual machines for a predetermined disk layer in a hierarchy of disk layers on which to apply the plurality of updates;
applying the plurality of updates to each virtual machine in the plurality of virtual machines associated with the predetermined disk layer in the hierarchy of disk layers;
confirming whether one or more updates in the plurality of updates have been successfully applied to one or more virtual machines in the predetermined disk layer;
determining whether to apply one or more updates in the plurality of updates to one or more virtual machines in a subsequent disk layer in the hierarchy of disk layers wherein:
i. when an update in the plurality of updates has been successfully applied to one or more virtual machines in the predetermined disk layer, suspending application of the update to each of the plurality of virtual machines associated with subsequent disk layers in the hierarchy of disk layers;
ii. when an update in the plurality of updates has not been successfully applied to one or more virtual machines in the predetermined disk layer, applying the update to each of the plurality of virtual machines associated with the subsequent disk layer in the hierarchy of disk layers.

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A system for updating a collection of software resources in a virtual desktop infrastructure comprising:

an update management server receiving a plurality of updates for one or more software resources;
a controller server identifying a plurality of virtual machines for a predetermined disk layer in a hierarchy of disk layers on which to apply the plurality of updates, applying the plurality of updates to each of the plurality of virtual machines associated with the predetermined disk layer in the hierarchy of disk layers, confirming whether one or more updates in the plurality of updates have been successfully applied to one or more virtual machines in the predetermined disk layer, determining whether to apply one or more updates in the plurality of updates to one or more virtual machines in a subsequent disk layer in the hierarchy of disk layers wherein:
i. when an update in the plurality of updates has been successfully applied to one or more virtual machines in the predetermined disk layer, suspending application of said update to each of the plurality of virtual machines associated with subsequent disk layers in the hierarchy of disk layers;
ii. when an update in the plurality of updates has not been successfully applied to one or more virtual machines in the predetermined disk layer, applying said update to each of the plurality of virtual machines associated with the subsequent disk layer in the hierarchy of disk layers.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

System Updates With Personal Virtual Disks

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