UNIFIED CLOUD COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE TO MANAGE AND DEPLOY PHYSICAL AND VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS
First Claim
1. A cloud computing system, comprising:
- a cloud construction block comprising;
modular pieces of hardware comprising;
compute hardware, memory hardware, storage hardware and network hardware; and
a management blade coupled to said modular pieces of hardware within said cloud construction block, wherein said management blade comprises;
a memory unit for storing a computer program for managing said modular pieces of hardware and managing a user'"'"'s workload; and
a processor coupled to said memory unit, wherein said processor, responsive to said computer program, comprises;
circuitry for presenting a user interface to manage said modular pieces of hardware of said cloud construction block.
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Abstract
A method, system and computer program product for managing and deploying physical and virtual environments across multiple hardware platforms. A single unit, referred to herein as a cloud construction block, contains both the hardware and software components used to build a cloud computing environment. By having such a single unit contain both the hardware and software components needed to build a cloud computing environment, the user no longer needs to purchase and integrate different hardware and software components. Furthermore, the cloud construction block contains modular pieces of hardware, such as compute hardware, memory hardware, storage hardware and network hardware, that are integrated with management software configured to manage both the hardware and the cloud computing environment in a seamlessly integrated package. Since there is a single management system, the management software allows the user to manage the modular pieces of hardware via a single user interface.
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1. A cloud computing system, comprising:
a cloud construction block comprising; modular pieces of hardware comprising;
compute hardware, memory hardware, storage hardware and network hardware; anda management blade coupled to said modular pieces of hardware within said cloud construction block, wherein said management blade comprises; a memory unit for storing a computer program for managing said modular pieces of hardware and managing a user'"'"'s workload; and a processor coupled to said memory unit, wherein said processor, responsive to said computer program, comprises; circuitry for presenting a user interface to manage said modular pieces of hardware of said cloud construction block. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A computer program product embodied in a computer readable storage medium for managing and deploying physical and virtual environments across multiple hardware platforms, the computer program product comprising the programming instructions for:
presenting a user interface by a management blade to manage modular pieces of hardware of a cloud construction block, wherein said modular pieces of hardware comprises compute hardware, memory hardware, storage hardware and network hardware, wherein said management blade is coupled to said modular pieces of hardware within said cloud construction block. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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