GRAPHING RELATIVE HEALTH OF VIRTUALIZATION SERVERS

• US 20150095432A1
• Filed: 10/01/2013
• Published: 04/02/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/25/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Vmware LLC (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: VMware, Inc. (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Inventors: SOUNDARARAJAN, Vijayaraghavan
• Granted Patent: US 9,887,951 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/45591 Monitoring or debugging support
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5041 characterised by the time relationship between creation and deployment of a service
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services

Abstract

In a computer-implemented method for generating a graph of relative health of virtualization management servers, performance information of virtualization management servers of a virtualization infrastructure is accessed and the performance information is aggregated. A graph of relative health of the virtualization management servers based on the aggregating of the performance information for the virtualization server is generated, and the graph is posted to a social network of members of the virtualization infrastructure.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for generating a graph of relative health of virtualization management servers, the computer-implemented method comprising:

accessing performance information of virtualization management servers of a virtualization infrastructure;

aggregating the performance information;

generating a graph of relative health of the virtualization management servers based on the aggregating of the performance information for the virtualization server; and

posting the graph to a social network of members of the virtualization infrastructure.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the accessing performance information comprises:

accessing performance information of all virtualization management servers of a virtualization infrastructure.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the generating a graph of relative health of the virtualization management servers further comprises:

generating a bar graph of a number of failed tasks by each of the virtualization management servers.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the generating a graph of relative health of the virtualization management servers further comprises:

generating a bar graph of a number of tasks executed by each of the virtualization management servers.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the generating a graph of relative health of the virtualization management servers further comprises:

generating a bar graph of CPU usage of each virtual machine of a cluster of each of the virtualization management servers.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the posting the graph to a social network comprises:

posting a plurality of graphs to the social network.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the posting the graph to a social network comprises:

posting the graph to a virtualization management server health group of the social network.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

enabling comments by the members of the social network related to the graph.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

posting a message to the social network, wherein said message comprises said graph, and tags associated with said graph.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the members of the virtualization infrastructure are mapped to a social network such that at least a portion of the members of the virtualization infrastructure are also members of the social network.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the members of the virtualization infrastructure comprise:

a system administrator;

the virtualization management servers;

a plurality of hosts; and

a plurality of virtual machines;

wherein the members of a social network are arranged in a hierarchy such that the system administrator follows the virtualization management servers, and the virtualization management servers follows at least one of the hosts.

12. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having instructions embodied therein that when executed cause a computer system to perform a method for generating a graph of relative health of virtualization management servers, the method comprising:

accessing performance information of virtualization management servers of a virtualization infrastructure;

aggregating the performance information;

generating graphs of relative health of the virtualization servers based on the aggregating of the performance information for the virtualization server; and

posting the graphs to a social network of members of the virtualization infrastructure, wherein the members of the virtualization infrastructure are mapped to a social network such that at least a portion of the members of the virtualization infrastructure are also members of the social network.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein said accessing performance information of virtualization management servers further comprises:

polling performance information of virtual management servers.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein the generating graphs of relative health of the virtualization management servers further comprises:

generating a bar graph of a number of failed tasks by each of the virtualization management servers.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein the generating graphs of relative health of the virtualization management servers further comprises:

generating a bar graph of a number of tasks executed by each of the virtualization management servers.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein the generating graphs of relative health of the virtualization management servers further comprises:

generating a bar graph of CPU usage of each virtual machine of a cluster of each of the virtualization management servers.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein the posting the graph to a social network comprises:

posting the graph to a virtualization management server health group of the social network.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 12, further comprising:

enabling comments by the members of the social network related to the graph.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 12, further comprising:

posting a message to the social network, wherein said message comprises said graph, and tags associated with said graph.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein the members of the virtualization infrastructure comprise:

a system administrator;

the virtualization management servers;

a plurality of hosts; and

a plurality of virtual machines;

wherein the members of a social network are arranged in a hierarchy such that the system administrator follows the virtualization management servers, and the virtualization management servers follows at least one of the hosts.