US Patent Issued to VMware on Oct. 21 for "System and method for managing size of clusters in a computing environment" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,081, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"System and method for managing size of clusters in a computing environment" was invented by Manoj Krishnan (Palo Alto, Calif.), Anant Agarwal (San Jose, Calif.), Rahul Chandrasekaran (Mountain View, Calif.), Prafulla Mahindrakar (San Jose, Calif.) and Ravi Cherukupalli (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A number of hosts in a logical cluster is adjusted up or down in an elastic manner by tracking membership of hosts in the cluster using a first data structure and tracking membership of hosts in a spare pool using a second data structure, and upon ...