VMware, Inc.
SERVER COMPUTER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR SUPPORTING HIGHLY AVAILABLE VIRTUAL DESKTOPS OF MULTIPLE DIFFERENT TENANTS

Abstract:

A server computer can be quickly allocated to and made ready for use by users of a tenant by adding and starting, on that server computer, copies of a process implementing the tenant's virtual machine, based on a gold image virtual machine for that tenant. The gold image virtual machine also has an associated gold image virtual disk. The virtual machines on the server computer are associated with virtual disks that are linked clones based on the gold image virtual disk, such as linked clones of a replica of the gold image virtual disk. Each virtual machine for a tenant on the new server computer also is added to the tenant computer network. Server computers for multiple tenants can be grouped into a cluster, and can use anti-affinity rules to limit instantiation of virtual machines of each tenant only on server computers dedicated to the tenant.