Logical server management interface displaying real-server technologies

• US 9,154,385 B1
• Filed: 03/17/2009
• Issued: 10/06/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/10/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Beyh, Yehia S., Deadwiler, Byron R., Rozhin, Mark, Wilkinson, Lyle Eric, Varaschin de Moraes, Juliano Godinho
• Primary Examiner(s): THIAW, CATHERINE B
• Application Number:
  US12/406,067
• Time in Patent Office: 2,394 Days
• Field of Search: 709219-226, 711/3, 711/4, 711113-118, 715/700, 715734-739
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5077 Logical partitioning of resources; Management or configuration of virtualized resources specific details on emulation or internal functioning of virtual machines G06F9/455
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]

Abstract

An administrator selects a logical server for deployment. In response, a logical-server management program displays representations of potential real-server targets for said logical server. The representations include respective ratings for the real-server targets. The representations further include indications of a real-server technology involved in deploying said logical server to a respect real-server target.

Claims

1. A data center management method comprising:

receiving, by a logical-server manager, a user selection of a logical server to be moved;

in response to a receipt of the user selection of the logical server to be moved, displaying, by the logical-server manager, representations of real-server deployment targets that are potential targets for said logical server, said representations including;

respective ratings for said real-server deployment targets, and

respective indications of move technologies to be used to move said logical server to said real-server deployment targets;

receiving, by the logical-server manager, a user selection of a representation of a real-server deployment target to move the logical server to, wherein the representation of the real-server deployment target includes an indication of a first move technology; and

in response to a receipt of the user selection of the representation of the real-server deployment target, moving, by the logical-server manager, the logical server to the real-server deployment target using the first move technology, wherein the move technologies include at least one selected from an on-line move, an off-line move, and a copy move, said logical server manager including hardware executing a logical-server management program.

2. A method as recited in claim 1 wherein said real-server deployment targets include virtual servers.

3. A method as recited in claim 1 wherein said real-server deployment targets include hardware servers.

4. A method as recited in claim 3 wherein said real-server deployment targets include virtual servers.

5. A method as recited in claim 1 wherein said indications distinguish between physical server deployment targets and virtual server deployment targets.

6. A method as recited in claim 1, further comprising selecting the move technologies based on underlying technologies of the respective real-server deployment targets.

7. A method as recited in claim 1, further comprising selecting the move technologies based on network topologies of the respective real-server deployment targets and a current host.

8. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the rating of each real-server deployment target indicates a level of resources required by the logical server that are provided by that real-server deployment target.

9. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein at least one of said representations includes a drop-down menu that, when activated, displays plural identifiers for plural respective real-server technologies and, when inactivated, displays exactly one of the plural real-server identifiers.

10. A system comprising non-transitory computer-readable storage media encoded with code configured to, when executed by a processor:

detect a selection by an administrator of a logical server to be moved;

in response to said selection of the logical server to be moved, display representations of real-server deployment targets that are potential targets for said logical server, said representations including;

respective ratings for said real-server deployment targets, and

respective indications of move technologies to be used to move said logical server to said real-server deployment targets;

receive a user selection of a representation of a real-server deployment target to move the logical server to, wherein the representation of the real-server deployment target includes an indication of a first move technology; and

in response to a receipt of the user selection of the representation of the real-server deployment target, move the logical server to the real-server deployment target using the first move technology, wherein the move technologies include at least one selected from an on-line move, an off-line move, and a copy move.

11. A system as recited in claim 10 wherein said real-server deployment targets include virtual servers.

12. A system as recited in claim 10 wherein said real-server deployment targets include hardware servers.

13. A system as recited in claim 12 wherein said real-server deployment targets include virtual servers.

14. A system as recited in claim 10 further comprising said processor.

15. A system as recited in claim 10 wherein said indications distinguish between physical server deployment targets and virtual server deployment targets.

16. A system as recited in claim 10, wherein at least one of said representations includes a drop-down menu that, when activated, displays plural identifiers for plural respective real-server technologies and, when inactivated, displays exactly one of the plural real-server identifiers.