Patent ID: 11941406
Assignee: VMWARE LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 12:
13. A computing system for configuring a hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) cluster, the computing system comprising:
a plurality of cluster configuration clients including a first configuration client and a second configuration client different from the first configuration client; and
a cluster manager for managing the HCI cluster,
wherein the first cluster configuration client includes an application window with a plurality of graphic user interface elements and is configured to
create a workflow session based on a workflow;
transmit the workflow session to the cluster manager for storing the workflow session in the HCI cluster;
retrieve the workflow session from the cluster manager via a network, wherein the workflow session includes a plurality of workflow operations, and a first workflow operation selected from the plurality of workflow operations is marked as incomplete, and the cluster manager is configured to create, adjust, and configure a plurality of nodes in the HCI cluster supported by a plurality of hosts,
transmit to the cluster manager a first request to invoke the first workflow operation, wherein the cluster manager is configured to perform the first workflow operation by batch-configuring the plurality of nodes in the HCI cluster,
in response to a determination that the first workflow operation is completed, request the cluster manager to mark the first workflow operation as completed; and

wherein the second cluster configuration client is configured to
retrieve the workflow session from the cluster manager, wherein a second workflow operation selected from the plurality of workflow operations is different from the first workflow operation and marked as incomplete,
transmit to the cluster manager a second request to invoke the second workflow operation, and
in response to a determination that the second workflow operation is completed, request the cluster manager to mark the second workflow operation as completed.