Patent ID: 11900141
Assignee: VMWARE LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A virtualized computing system, comprising:
a cluster of hosts having a virtualization layer executing thereon and configured to manage virtual machines (VMs);
first and second local storage devices in a first host of the cluster, the first local storage device being part of a virtual storage area network (vSAN) and the second local storage device being exclusive of the vSAN;
an orchestration control plane, integrated with the virtualization layer, the orchestration control plane including a master server managing state of the orchestration control plane, the state including objects representing the hosts and the VMs, the orchestration control plane deploying a persistent application executing on a first VM of the VMs, the persistent application storing persistent data on the second local storage device; and
a virtualization management server configured to manage the cluster and to cooperate with the orchestration control plane to modify the state to notify the master server of a virtual infrastructure (VI) event.