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

Claim 0:
1. A virtualized computing system, comprising:
a host cluster having a virtualization layer directly executing on hardware platforms of hosts, the virtualization layer supporting execution of virtual machines (VMs), the VMs including native VMs, the native VMs including applications executing on guest operating systems;
an orchestration control plane integrated with the virtualization layer, the orchestration control plane including a master server and native VM controllers, the master server managing lifecycles of the native VMs, the native VM controllers executing in the virtualization layer external to the VMs and configured as agents of the master server to manage the native VMs; and
management agents, executing in the native VMs, configured to receive decoupled information from the master server through 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.