MANAGEMENT OF A CLOUD-COMPUTING FACILITY THROUGH A VIRTUAL INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT SERVER
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1. A testing and simulation system comprising:
- a management server that includes one or more processors, one or more memories, and communications controllers and that provides a management interface for managing a virtual infrastructure, operation of which is tested by the testing and simulation system;
a management-server database, accessed by the management server, that stores configuration information, configuration and operational parameters, and descriptive information related to a virtual infrastructure that is simulated by the testing and simulation system; and
a host-gateway appliance that connects the management server to simulated host computer systems of the virtual infrastructure that is simulated by the testing and simulation system and that simulates host-computer responses to, and host-computer state changes that result from, management commands and requests transmitted by the management server to simulated host computer systems through the host-gateway appliance.
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Abstract
The current document is directed to aggregation of computers into distributed computing systems and, in particular, to methods and systems that simulate computer-system aggregations to test computer-system-aggregation management subsystems. In a described implementation, a host-gateway appliance is modified to simulate host-server-computer responses to management commands and requests. In this implementation, a replicated and modified management-server database is used both by a management server under test as well as by the modified host-gateway appliance.
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1. A testing and simulation system comprising:
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a management server that includes one or more processors, one or more memories, and communications controllers and that provides a management interface for managing a virtual infrastructure, operation of which is tested by the testing and simulation system; a management-server database, accessed by the management server, that stores configuration information, configuration and operational parameters, and descriptive information related to a virtual infrastructure that is simulated by the testing and simulation system; and a host-gateway appliance that connects the management server to simulated host computer systems of the virtual infrastructure that is simulated by the testing and simulation system and that simulates host-computer responses to, and host-computer state changes that result from, management commands and requests transmitted by the management server to simulated host computer systems through the host-gateway appliance. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A method that that simulates a virtual infrastructure in order to test a management server, the method comprising:
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replicating and modifying a management-server database within the virtual infrastructure to a testing management-server database, the management-server database storing configuration information, configuration and operational parameters, and descriptive information related to the virtual infrastructure; providing access, to a management server under test, to the testing management-server database, the management server under test including one or more processors, one or more memories, and communications controllers and hardware and that provides a management interface for managing a virtual infrastructure; interconnecting the management server under test with a host-gateway appliance that connects the management server under test to simulated host computer systems of the virtual infrastructure and that simulates host-computer responses to, and host-computer state changes that result from, management commands and requests transmitted by the management server under test to simulated host computer systems through the host-gateway appliance. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A physical data-storage device that stores computer instructions that, when executed by one or more processes of a host-gateway device, controls the host-gateway device to:
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connect a management server under test to simulated host computer systems of a simulated virtual infrastructure; and simulate host-computer responses to, and host-computer state changes that result from, management commands and requests transmitted by the management server under test to the simulated host computer systems using information in a management-server database, including configuration information, configuration and operational parameters, and descriptive information related to the simulated virtual infrastructure.
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