Patent ID: 11972283
Assignee: VMWARE LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 7:
8. A host computer in a host cluster of a virtualized computing system, the host comprising:
a hardware platform;
a virtualization layer, directly executing on the hardware platform, supporting execution of virtual machines (VMs), the VMs including native VMs, the native VMs including applications executing on guest operating systems; and
a native VM controller, executing in the virtualization layer external to the VMs, configured as an agent of an orchestration control plane of the virtualized computing system, the native VM controller configured to manage the native VMs, wherein
the native VMs include management agents executing therein to receive decoupled information from the native VM controllers and to provide the decoupled information for consumption by the applications executing in the native VMs, the decoupled information including at least one of configuration information and secret information managed by the orchestration control plane.