ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,474, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Bootstrapping an encrypted single node VSAN cluster" was invented by Tao Xie (Shanghai), Ruiling Dou (Shanghai), Wenguang Wang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Zongliang Li (Shanghai) and Zhao Jin (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to bootstrapping an encrypted single node VSAN cluster. One method includes receiving a request to create an encrypted VSAN cluster from a single host in a software-defined datacenter, deploying a virtual server on a VSAN datastore of the software-defined datacenter, registering a native key provider (NKP) i...