US Patent Issued to VMware on Dec. 2 for "Data protection for control planes in a virtualized computer system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,843, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Data protection for control planes in a virtualized computer system" was invented by Brian Masao Oki (San Jose, Calif.), Mukesh Hira (Los Altos, Calif.) and Konstantinos Roussos (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method of data protection in a virtualized computing system, the virtualized computing system including a host cluster, a virtualization management server connected, and a network manager coupled to a physical network, the host cluster having hosts and a virtualization layer executing on hardware platforms of the hosts, is descri...