US Patent Application 17720397. ORCHESTRATED SHUTDOWN OF VIRTUAL MACHINES USING A SHUTDOWN INTERFACE AND A NETWORK CARD simplified abstract
ORCHESTRATED SHUTDOWN OF VIRTUAL MACHINES USING A SHUTDOWN INTERFACE AND A NETWORK CARD
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Inventor(s)
Naveen Kumar of South Grafton MA (US)
Richard Rubino of Hingham MA (US)
ORCHESTRATED SHUTDOWN OF VIRTUAL MACHINES USING A SHUTDOWN INTERFACE AND A NETWORK CARD - A simplified explanation of the abstract
- This abstract for appeared for US patent application number 17720397 Titled 'ORCHESTRATED SHUTDOWN OF VIRTUAL MACHINES USING A SHUTDOWN INTERFACE AND A NETWORK CARD'
Simplified Explanation
This abstract describes techniques for shutting down virtual machines using a shutdown interface and a network card. When a power failure is detected in a hyperconverged appliance, a controller application sends a message to the network card. The shutdown interface then shuts down both user-created virtual machines and system-created virtual machines, as well as physical host devices of the appliance. Once the user-created virtual machines are shut down, the controller application itself shuts down. It's worth noting that the execution of the controller application on the network card does not utilize resources from the physical host devices.
Original Abstract Submitted
Techniques are provided for orchestrating a shutdown of virtual machines using a shutdown interface and a network card. One method comprises receiving a message sent by a controller application, executing on a network card of a hyperconverged appliance, wherein the message is sent by the controller application after shutting down one or more user-created virtual machines in response to a detected power failure of the hyperconverged appliance; performing the following steps, by a shutdown interface, in response to receiving the message: shutting down one or more system-created virtual machines and one or more physical host devices of the hyperconverged appliance. The controller application may pass control to the shutdown interface and may shut down in response to the completion of the shutting down of the one or more user-created virtual machines. The execution of the controller application on the network card may not employ resources of the physical host devices.
