METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ABSTRACTING CLOUD MANAGEMENT TO ALLOW COMMUNICATION BETWEEN INDEPENDENTLY CONTROLLED CLOUDS
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1. A method of managing a cloud computing environment, comprising:
- identifying a communication for a virtual machine executing on a computing system in an external cloud according to a first cloud management scheme, wherein the communication is formatted according to a second cloud management scheme;
converting the communication into the first cloud management scheme; and
providing the converted communication to the virtual machine in the external cloud.
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Abstract
To manage and communicate with virtual machines in an external cloud regardless of the cloud management scheme of clouds, the cloud management system can utilize an abstraction library. The abstraction library can be configured to abstract out the differences between different cloud management schemes utilized by the cloud management systems and an independent cloud management system of the external cloud.
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20 Claims
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1. A method of managing a cloud computing environment, comprising:
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identifying a communication for a virtual machine executing on a computing system in an external cloud according to a first cloud management scheme, wherein the communication is formatted according to a second cloud management scheme; converting the communication into the first cloud management scheme; and providing the converted communication to the virtual machine in the external cloud. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A method for managing a cloud computing environment, comprising:
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identifying a virtual machine formatted according to a first cloud management scheme; configuring the virtual machine according to a second cloud management scheme of an external cloud; and instantiating the virtual machine on a computing system in the external cloud. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10)
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11. A system for managing a cloud computing environment, comprising:
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a network interface to a set of computing systems in a cloud and a second set of computing systems in an external cloud; and a processor communicating with the network interface and executing a cloud management system, the cloud management system being configured to identify a communication for a virtual machine executing on the second set of computing systems according to a first cloud management scheme, wherein the communication is formatted according to a second cloud management scheme; convert the communication into the first cloud management scheme; and provide the converted communication to the virtual machine. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A system for managing a cloud computing environment, comprising:
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a network interface to a set of computing systems in a cloud and a second set of computing systems in an external cloud; and a processor communicating with the network interface and executing a cloud management system, the cloud management system being configured to identify a virtual machine formatted according to a first cloud management scheme; configure the virtual machine according to a second cloud management scheme; and instantiate the virtual machine on the second set of computing systems in the external cloud. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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