US Patent Issued to VMware on March 25 for "Network-based signaling to control virtual machine placement" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,241, issued on March 25, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Network-based signaling to control virtual machine placement" was invented by Chi-Hsiang Su (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Sachin Thakkar (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtualized computing environment includes a plurality of host computers, each host being connected to a physical network and having a hypervisor executing therein. To provision a virtual machine requiring a connection to a virtual network in one of the hosts, a candidate host for hosting the virtual machine, the candidate host having the virtual network configured therein, is se...