Patent ID: 11876671
Assignee: VMWARE LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 12:
13. A virtualized computing system integrated with an application management system, comprising:
a host cluster of hosts connected by a physical network and executing a virtualization layer on hardware platforms of the hosts, wherein the hardware platform of each host includes a processor and memory, and the virtualization layer is configured to support execution of virtual machines (VMs) and is integrated with the application management system; and
a software-defined (SD) network layer of the host cluster configured to provide a cluster network for the application management system; and
a virtualization management server configured to deploy a master server of the application management system prior to configuration of the cluster network, the master server connected to the virtualization management server by a management network isolated from the cluster network;
wherein the master server is configured to:
configure, in cooperation with a network manager, the cluster network to connect the VMs; and
connect, in cooperation with the network manager, the cluster network to an edge node configured to support external ingress/egress for the cluster network;

wherein the VMs include first VMs and second VMs, the second VMs implementing a control plane of the application management system through which containers of an application are deployed for execution in the first VMs, the second VMs including the master server.