Abstracting cloud management

• US 9,450,783 B2
• Filed: 05/28/2009
• Issued: 09/20/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/28/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Inventors: DeHaan, Michael Paul
• Primary Examiner(s): Tiv, Backhean
• Application Number:
  US12/474,113
• Publication Number:
  US 20100306765A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,672 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/541 via adapters, e.g. between incompatible applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/6418 Hybrid transport

Abstract

The management of a virtual machine is disclosed. A virtual machine can be identified that is configured in accordance with a cloud management scheme. A processor of a computing system can abstract differences of management protocol between cloud management schemes. The processor can reconfigure the virtual machine in view of the abstracted differences. An instance of the reconfigured virtual machine can be created.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

identifying a virtual machine that is configured in accordance with a first cloud management scheme;

abstracting, by a processor of a computing system, differences of management protocol between the first cloud management scheme and a second cloud management scheme;

reconfiguring, by the processor, the virtual machine from the first cloud management scheme to the second cloud management scheme in view of the abstracted differences; and

creating an instance of the reconfigured virtual machine.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the reconfiguring is further in view of an instruction to configure the virtual machine in accordance with the second cloud management scheme.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving the virtual machine to instantiate on the computing system.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising migrating the virtual machine from an original computing system to the computing system.

5. A computing system comprising:

a memory to store an abstraction library; and

a processor, operatively coupled with the memory, to;

identify a virtual machine that is configured in accordance with a first cloud management scheme;

abstract differences of management protocol between the first cloud management scheme and a second cloud management scheme;

reconfigure, in view of the abstraction library, the virtual machine to the second cloud management scheme in view of the abstracted differences; and

create an instance of the reconfigured virtual machine.

6. The computing system of claim 5, wherein to reconfigure is further in view of an instruction to configure a virtual machine in accordance with the second cloud management scheme.

7. The computing system of claim 5, wherein the processor is further to receive the virtual machine to instantiate on the computing system.

8. The computing system of claim 5, wherein the processor is further to migrate the virtual machine from an original computing system to the computing system.

9. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising instructions encoded thereon that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor at least to:

identify, by the processor, a virtual machine that is configured in accordance with a first cloud management scheme;

abstract, by the processor, differences of management protocol between the first cloud management scheme and a second cloud management scheme;

reconfigure, by the processor, the virtual machine to the second cloud management scheme in view of the abstracted differences; and

create, by the processor, an instance of the reconfigured virtual machine.

10. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein the reconfiguring is further in view of an instruction to configure, by the processor, the virtual machine in accordance with the second cloud management scheme.

11. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein the processor is further to receive, by the processor, the virtual machine to instantiate on the processor.

12. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein the processor is further to migrate, by the processor, the virtual machine from an original processor to the processor.