VIRTUAL COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE
First Claim
1. A system having physical resources for data processing, for data storage resources and for network communications to couple the data processing and data storage resources, the system also having one or more virtual overlay infrastructures mapped onto the physical resources, each virtual overlay infrastructure comprising one or more virtual entities for data processing, one or more virtual data storage entities and one or more virtual network entities arranged to couple others of the virtual entities, the system having a mapping manager arranged to dynamically alter the mapping.
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Abstract
A system has a virtual overlay infrastructure mapped onto physical resources for processing, storage and network communications, the virtual infrastructure having virtual entities for processing, storage and network communications. The system has a mapping manager to dynamically alter the mapping for balancing, performance, and redundancy. There can be more independence from the underlying physical configuration, compared to known methods of virtualizing only some of the entities. The mapping manager can be distributed across a number of entities on different physical servers arranged to cooperate with each other.
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24 Claims
- 1. A system having physical resources for data processing, for data storage resources and for network communications to couple the data processing and data storage resources, the system also having one or more virtual overlay infrastructures mapped onto the physical resources, each virtual overlay infrastructure comprising one or more virtual entities for data processing, one or more virtual data storage entities and one or more virtual network entities arranged to couple others of the virtual entities, the system having a mapping manager arranged to dynamically alter the mapping.
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10. (canceled)
- 14. Mapping manager software for a system having physical resources for data processing, for data storage resources and for network communications to couple the data processing and data storage resources, the system also having one or more virtual overlay infrastructures mapped onto the physical resources, each virtual overlay infrastructure comprising one or more virtual entities for data processing, one or more virtual data storage entities and one or more virtual network entities arranged to couple others of the virtual entities, the mapping manager software having the at least part of the mapping and being arranged to dynamically alter the part of the mapping.
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21-22. -22. (canceled)
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23. A method of operating a system by a user, the system having physical resources for data processing, for data storage resources and for network communications to couple the data processing and data storage resources, the system also having one or more virtual overlay infrastructures mapped onto the physical resources, each virtual overlay infrastructure comprising one or more virtual entities for data processing, one or more virtual data storage entities and one or more virtual network entities arranged to couple others of the virtual entities, the system having a mapping manager arranged to dynamically alter the mapping, the user carrying out the step of altering their virtual overlay infrastructure, and causing the mapping manager to dynamically alter the mapping.
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24. (canceled)
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