Patent ID: 11922185
Assignee: VMWARE LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 5:
6. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon, which in response to execution by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform or control performance of operations that pertain to a plurality of plugins in a virtualized computing environment, the operations comprising:
installing the plurality of plugins at a plugin server, wherein the plugin server resides at a first computing device that is remote from a second computing device where a management server for the virtualized computing environment resides, and wherein the plugin server communicates with the management server via a reverse proxy of the management server;
isolating a first plugin, of the plurality of plugins, from a core user interface provided by the management server; and
facilitating execution of the first plugin to support operation of elements of the core user interface that have been loaded by the management server to a web client, wherein isolating the first plugin from the core user interface includes loading elements of the first plugin into a first sandbox at the web client, wherein the web client communicates with each of the management server and the plugin server via the reverse proxy of the management server, and wherein the first plugin and the plugins at the plugin server are executed outside of the management server and are prevented from executing at the management server.