VMware, Inc. (20240412158). HARDWARE CAPACITY MANAGEMENT IN A MULTI-CLOUD COMPUTING SYSTEM
HARDWARE CAPACITY MANAGEMENT IN A MULTI-CLOUD COMPUTING SYSTEM
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Inventor(s)
Emily Hong Xu of Palo Alto CA (US)
Rama Koteswari Sudireddi of Cupertino CA (US)
Arabinda Das of Bangalore (IN)
Shrinivas Patil of Bagalkot (IN)
HARDWARE CAPACITY MANAGEMENT IN A MULTI-CLOUD COMPUTING SYSTEM
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20240412158 titled 'HARDWARE CAPACITY MANAGEMENT IN A MULTI-CLOUD COMPUTING SYSTEM
Original Abstract Submitted
an example method of managing hardware capacity in a multi-cloud computing system includes: obtaining, by a hardware inventory service executing in the multi-cloud computing system, hardware information for physical servers, in a public cloud, for which a customer has a subscription entitling bare-metal management of the physical servers; maintaining, by the hardware inventory service, an inventory of hardware capacity comprising a physical server pool that includes the physical servers; receiving, at the hardware inventory service, a request to consume the hardware capacity; and providing, by the hardware inventory service, a response to the request that identifies the physical server pool for deploying software to execute therein.