US 12,487,843 B2
Data protection for control planes in a virtualized computer system
Brian Masao Oki, San Jose, CA (US); Mukesh Hira, Los Altos, CA (US); and Konstantinos Roussos, Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Assigned to VMware LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US)
Filed by VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US)
Filed on Dec. 22, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/559,004.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/129,252, filed on Dec. 22, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0197687 A1, Jun. 23, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01); G06F 9/54 (2006.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01); H04L 41/0895 (2022.01)
CPC G06F 9/45558 (2013.01) [G06F 9/541 (2013.01); G06F 11/1469 (2013.01); H04L 41/0895 (2022.05); G06F 2009/45579 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45595 (2013.01); G06F 2201/815 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of data protection in a virtualized computing system, the virtualized computing system including a host cluster, a virtualization management server, and a network manager each coupled to a physical network, the host cluster having hosts and a virtualization layer executing on hardware platforms of the hosts, the method comprising:
receiving, at the virtualization management server, a backup request, the virtualization management server managing the host cluster, the virtualization layer, and virtual machines (VMs) executing on the virtualization layer, the virtualization management server including a service configured to cooperate with the network manager;
installing, by the virtualization management server, first agents in hypervisors of the virtualization layer to add the hosts as managed entities;
installing, by the network manager, second agents in the hypervisors of the virtualization layer to add the hosts as nodes of a logical network overlaid on the physical network, the logical network including edge nodes, managed by the network manager, configured to provide ingress and egress between the logical network and an external network;
executing, at the virtualization management server in response to the backup request, a coupled backup of the virtualization management server and the network manager, including:
creating, at a first time, a backup of a first database in the virtualization management server, the first database storing first configuration data for a virtual infrastructure (VI) control plane of the host cluster;
creating, at the first time, a backup of a second database in the network manager, the second database storing second configuration data for nodes and edge nodes of the logical network;
storing the coupled backup in storage remote from the virtualization management server and the network manager.