US Patent Issued to VMware on Aug. 11 for "Bare metal computer for booting copies of VM images on multiple computing devices using a smart NIC" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,085, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Bare metal computer for booting copies of VM images on multiple computing devices using a smart NIC" was invented by Renaud B. Voltz (Los Altos Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a method for operating a physical server in a network. The method stores multiple copies of a virtual machine (VM) image at a network-accessible storage. The method uses a first copy of the VM image as a virtual disk to execute a VM on a hypervisor of a first physical computing device. The method uses a second copy of the VM image as a virtual disk acc...