Managing hosts of a pre-configured hyper-converged computing device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10705830-B2
Application number	US-201815888464-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 5, 2018
Priority date	Jul 20, 2017
Publication date	Jul 7, 2020
Grant date	Jul 7, 2020

Abstract

In a computer-implemented method for managing hosts of a pre-configured hyper-converged computing device, a pre-configured hyper-converged computing device comprising a plurality of hosts is managed, where the plurality of hosts is allocable to workload domains, where unallocated hosts of the plurality of hosts is maintained within a pool of unallocated hosts, and where the plurality of hosts each have an operating system version. An unallocated host of the pool of unallocated hosts is determined as having an operating system version that is outside of a range of supported operating system versions. The operating system version of the unallocated host is updated to an operating system version within the range of supported operating system versions.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer-implemented method for managing hosts of a pre-configured hyper-converged computing device, the method comprising:
managing a pre-configured hyper-converged computing device comprising a plurality of hosts, wherein the plurality of hosts is allocable to workload domains, wherein unallocated hosts of the plurality of hosts is maintained within a pool of unallocated hosts, and wherein the plurality of hosts each have an operating system version;
determining that an unallocated host of the pool of unallocated hosts has an operating system version that is outside of a range of supported operating system versions; and
updating the operating system version of the unallocated host to an operating system version within the range of supported operating system versions.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the determining that the unallocated host of the pool of unallocated hosts has an operating system version that is outside of the range of supported operating system versions comprises:
receiving an indication that the range of supported operating system versions does not support the operating system version of the unallocated host.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising:
responsive to a command to remove a host from a workload domain, adding the host to the pool of unallocated hosts.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 3 , wherein the determining that an unallocated host of the pool of unallocated hosts has an operating system version that is outside of the range of supported operating system versions comprises:
comparing the operating system version of the unallocated host to the range of supported operating system versions; and
provided that the unallocated host has an operating system version that is outside of the range of supported operating system versions, determining that the unallocated host has an operating system version that is outside of the range of supported operating system versions.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising:
responsive to an addition of a new host to the plurality of hosts of the pre-configured hyper-converged computing device, adding the new host to the pool of unallocated hosts.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 5 , wherein the determining that an unallocated host of the pool of unallocated hosts has an operating system version that is outside of the range of supported operating system versions comprises:
comparing the operating system version of the new host to the range of supported operating system versions; and
provided that the new host has an operating system version that is outside of the range of supported operating system versions, determining that the new host has an operating system version that is outside of the range of supported operating system versions.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the determining that an unallocated host of the pool of unallocated hosts has an operating system version that is outside of the range of supported operating system versions comprises:
scanning unallocated hosts of the pool of unallocated hosts to determine operating system versions of the unallocated hosts; and
comparing the operating system versions of the unallocated hosts to the range of supported operating system versions.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the updating the operating system version of the unallocated host to an operating system version within the range of supported operating system versions comprises:
retrieving an operating system version from an operating system version repository; and
applying the operating system version of the unallocated host to the operating system version retrieved from the operating system version repository.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising:
responsive to receiving a command to add a host to a workload domain, allocating the host to the workload domain and removing the host from the pool of unallocated hosts.

10. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code stored thereon for causing a computer system to perform a method for managing hosts of a workload domain of a pre-configured hyper-converged computing device, the method comprising:
managing a pre-configured hyper-converged computing device comprising a plurality of hosts, wherein the plurality of hosts is allocable to workload domains, wherein unallocated hosts of the plurality of hosts is maintained within a pool of unallocated hosts, and wherein the plurality of hosts each have an operating system version;
determining that an unallocated host of the pool of unallocated hosts has an operating system version that is outside of a range of supported operating system versions; and
updating the operating system version of the unallocated host to an operating system version within the range of supported operating system versions.

11. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 10 , wherein the determining that the unallocated host of the pool of unallocated hosts has an operating system version that is outside of the range of supported operating system versions comprises:
receiving an indication that the range of supported operating system versions does not support the operating system version of the unallocated host.

12. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 10 , the method further comprising:
responsive to a command to remove a host from a workload domain, adding the host to the pool of unallocated hosts.

13. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 12 , wherein the determining that an unallocated host of the pool of unallocated hosts has an operating system version that is outside of the range of supported operating system versions comprises:
comparing the operating system version of the unallocated host to the range of supported operating system versions; and
provided that the unallocated host has an operating system version that is outside of the range of supported operating system versions, determining that the unallocated host has an operating system version that is outside of the range of supported operating system versions.

14. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 10 , the method further comprising:
responsive to an addition of a new host to the plurality of hosts of the pre-configured hyper-converged computing device, adding the new host to the pool of unallocated hosts.

15. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 14 , wherein the determining that an unallocated host of the pool of unallocated hosts has an operating system version that is outside of the range of supported operating system versions comprises:
comparing the operating system version of the new host to the range of supported operating system versions; and
provided that the new host has an operating system version that is outside of the range of supported operating system versions, determining that the new host has an operating system version that is outside of the range of supported operating system versions.

16. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 10 , wherein the determining that an unallocated host of the pool of unallocated hosts has an operating system version that is outside of the range of supported operating system versions comprises:
scanning unallocated hosts of the pool of unallocated hosts to determine operating system versions of the unallocated hosts; and
comparing the operating syst

Assignees

• Vmware Inc

Inventors

• Mahajan Arun
• Seshadri Chitrank
• Panda Atanu
• Mukhopadhyay Sudipto
• Ye Mao
• Davini Benjamin

Classifications

• G06F8/65

  Updates (security arrangements therefor G06F21/57) · CPC title

• G06F9/455

  Emulation; Interpretation; Software simulation, e.g. virtualisation or emulation of application or operating system execution engines · CPC title

• G06F9/45558 Primary

  Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects · CPC title

• G06F8/71 Primary

  Version control (security arrangements therefor G06F21/57); Configuration management · CPC title

• G06F2009/45562

  Creating, deleting, cloning virtual machine instances · CPC title