US 12,093,133 B2
On-demand backups for management components in software-defined data centers
Baskar Dharmarajan, Bangalore (IN); and Anantha Mohan Raj, Bangalore (IN)
Assigned to VMware LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US)
Filed by VMWARE, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US)
Filed on Apr. 13, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/134,053.
Claims priority of application No. 202341005346 (IN), filed on Jan. 27, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0256387 A1, Aug. 1, 2024
Int. Cl. G06F 16/14 (2019.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 11/1448 (2013.01) [G06F 11/1458 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method for backing up management components of a software-defined data center (SDDC) managed by a cloud-based service, the method comprising:
receiving backup rules for the SDDC at a backup-restore (BR) cloud service in a public cloud computing environment;
storing the backup rules in storage accessible by the BR cloud service;
configuring a backup manager agent in the SDDC with the backup rules retrieved from the storage;
monitoring system logs generated by the management components of the SDDC by the backup manager agent to determine whether at least one of the system logs satisfies the backup rules; and
when at least one of the system logs satisfies the backup rules, initiating a backup operation for at least one of the management components of the SDDC.