Techniques for cloud control and management
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1. A method, comprising:
- logically organizing hardware and storage disbursed over a network into virtualization layers as workloads, each workload representing a different and an independent processing environment as a unique data center, and each data center including data-center specific security and data-center controlled resources;
maintaining a configuration management database that identifies each data center along with that data center'"'"'s;
configuration settings, data center-specific security, and data-center controlled resources;
deploying each data center over the network for processing; and
monitoring each data center while permitting each data center to independently manage that data center'"'"'s;
configuration settings, data center-specific security, and data-center controlled resources unless during independent management any particular data center violates master policies maintained in the configuration management database.
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Abstract
Techniques for cloud control and management are provided. The control, creation, and management of workloads in distributed infrastructures are coordinated via a master Configuration Management Database (CMDB). The master CMDB is also used to unify the multiple distributed infrastructures so that the workloads are rationalized. Moreover, data centers are coordinated with the distributed infrastructures so the configuration settings and policies included in the master CMDB are enforced and synchronized throughout the network.
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11 Claims
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1. A method, comprising:
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logically organizing hardware and storage disbursed over a network into virtualization layers as workloads, each workload representing a different and an independent processing environment as a unique data center, and each data center including data-center specific security and data-center controlled resources; maintaining a configuration management database that identifies each data center along with that data center'"'"'s; configuration settings, data center-specific security, and data-center controlled resources; deploying each data center over the network for processing; and monitoring each data center while permitting each data center to independently manage that data center'"'"'s; configuration settings, data center-specific security, and data-center controlled resources unless during independent management any particular data center violates master policies maintained in the configuration management database. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A system, comprising:
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a network-based server; a network-management interface that executes on the network-based server and is accessible to a plurality of independent and disparate processing environments over a network; and a configuration repository accessible from the network-based server; wherein the processing environments are deployed over the network and each processing environment is configured to independently manage that processing environment'"'"'s;
processing-specific resources and processing-specific security, and wherein the network-management interface maintains configuration settings and policies for the processing environments and ensures that master policies of the configuration repository are not violated by any of the processing environments during operation of the processing environments over the network. - View Dependent Claims (11)
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