US 11,856,050 B2
Multi-tenant-cloud-aggregation and application-support system
Jagannath N. Raghu, Palo Alto, CA (US)
Assigned to VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US)
Filed by VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US)
Filed on Nov. 28, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/059,324.
Application 18/059,324 is a continuation of application No. 17/162,817, filed on Jan. 29, 2021, granted, now 11,516,283.
Application 17/162,817 is a continuation of application No. 16/377,629, filed on Apr. 8, 2019, granted, now 10,911,524, issued on Feb. 2, 2021.
Application 16/377,629 is a continuation of application No. 15/161,695, filed on May 23, 2016, granted, now 10,257,261, issued on Apr. 9, 2019.
Application 15/161,695 is a continuation of application No. 13/540,170, filed on Jul. 2, 2012, granted, now 9,348,652, issued on May 24, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2023/0087147 A1, Mar. 23, 2023
Int. Cl. H04L 67/10 (2022.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01); H04L 41/22 (2022.01); H04L 41/50 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 67/10 (2013.01) [G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 9/5072 (2013.01); H04L 41/22 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45595 (2013.01); H04L 41/508 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cloud-computing-facility aggregation and application-support subsystem within a multiple cloud-computing-facility aggregation that includes multiple, operationally distinct cloud-computing facilities, the cloud-computing-facility aggregation and application-support sub system comprising:
a cloud-connector server that provides an electronic cloud-aggregation management interface and that is installed within one of the multiple, operationally distinct cloud-computing facilities;
multiple cloud-connector nodes, each single cloud-connector node being a resident within a virtual data center management server within each cloud-computing facility of the multiple cloud-computing-facility aggregation, each cloud-connector node providing an electronic interface through which the cloud-connector server accesses services provided by the cloud-connector node; and
multiple service-provider nodes, each service-provider node installed in a multi-tenant virtual data center within each cloud-computing facility of the multiple cloud-computing-facility aggregation, each service-provider node accessing a cloud-director management interface to obtain information related to tenant-associated virtual data centers provided by a cloud-director and information related to a multi-tenant virtual data center from which the tenant-associated virtual data centers are provided and transmit the obtained information through an electronic interface to the cloud-connector server through a cloud-connector node.