Techniques for cloud control and management
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1. A method, comprising:
- managing resources of workloads through a configuration repository and when at least two resources communicate via a specific protocol defining that protocol in a setting within the configuration repository, and wherein managing further includes managing processing loads, memory loads, storage loads, and processing capabilities for each processing environment associated with the workloads, and wherein managing further includes permitting each processing environment to independently manage the workloads associated with that processing environment as long as independent management remains in compliance with the configuration repository; and
interfacing the resources and the workloads via settings defined in the configuration repository.
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Abstract
Techniques for cloud control and management are provided. The control, creation, and management of workloads in distributed infrastructures are coordinated via a master Configuration Management Database (CMDB). The master CMDB is also used to unify the multiple distributed infrastructures so that the workloads are rationalized. Moreover, data centers are coordinated with the distributed infrastructures so the configuration settings and policies included in the master CMDB are enforced and synchronized throughout the network.
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1. A method, comprising:
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managing resources of workloads through a configuration repository and when at least two resources communicate via a specific protocol defining that protocol in a setting within the configuration repository, and wherein managing further includes managing processing loads, memory loads, storage loads, and processing capabilities for each processing environment associated with the workloads, and wherein managing further includes permitting each processing environment to independently manage the workloads associated with that processing environment as long as independent management remains in compliance with the configuration repository; and interfacing the resources and the workloads via settings defined in the configuration repository. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A method, comprising:
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automatically interfacing a data center configuration repository associated with distributed infrastructures with infrastructure configuration repositories for each of the distributed infrastructures; and automatically managing the distributed infrastructures as a data center through the interfaced configuration repositories, wherein automatically managing further includes defining a specific protocol between at least two distributed resources when those resources communicate with one another, the specific protocol defined by a setting in the data center configuration repository, and wherein automatically managing further includes managing processing loads, memory loads, storage loads, and processing capabilities for each distributed infrastructure, wherein automatically managing further includes permitting each data center to independently manage the distributed infrastructure associated with that data center as long as independent management does remains in compliance with the data center configuration repository. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A system, comprising:
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a data center server; and a plurality of distributed processing environments configured to be accessible over a network;
wherein the data center server is configured to;i) interface the distributed processing environments with one another, ii) manage the distributed processing environments as a single data center processing environment through a configuration repository, and manage processing loads, memory loads, storage loads, and processing capabilities for each distributed processing environment, and permit each distributed processing environment to independently manage an infrastructure of that distributed processing environment as long as independent management remains in compliance with the configuration repository, and iii) defining a communication protocol that at least two resources are to process to communication with one another from different ones of the distributed processing environment through a setting defined in the configuration repository. - View Dependent Claims (20)
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