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

Claim 0:
1. A method of configuring a cluster network for an application management system having virtual machines (VMs) executing on a virtualization layer in a cluster of hosts connected to a physical network, wherein the application management system is integrated with the virtualization layer, the method comprising:
deploying, by a virtualization management server, a master server of the application management system prior to configuration of a cluster network that connects the VMs, the master server connected to the virtualization management server by a management network isolated from the cluster network;
configuring, by the master server in cooperation with a network manager, the cluster network to connect the VMs; and
connecting, by the master server 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.