Creating, provisioning and managing virtual data centers

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10133608-B2
Application number	US-201615242725-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 22, 2016
Priority date	Mar 15, 2013
Publication date	Nov 20, 2018
Grant date	Nov 20, 2018

Abstract

A cloud services brokerage platform system includes a virtual data center (VDC) and an architecture management interface. The virtual data center (VDC) includes a plurality of resource groups. Each one of the resource groups includes one or more VDC resources. Each one of the VDC resources is associated with a respective set of resource group specification parameters. The architecture management interface enables an architectural layout of the one or more VDC resources to be displayed. The architectural layout includes a visual depiction of the one or more VDC resources of each one of the resource groups. An arrangement of the visual depiction is dependent upon the respective set of resource group specification parameters.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having tangibly embodied thereon and accessible therefrom instructions interpretable by at least one data processing device, the instructions are configured for causing the at least one data processing device to perform a method comprising:
creating a plurality of resource groups defined by respective resource group specification information; and
dependent upon display criteria, causing selective display of a cloud resource architectural layout for a virtual data center (VDC) containing one or more of the resource groups, wherein the cloud resource architectural layout includes a visual depiction of each one of the resource groups contained thereby;
wherein the cloud resource architectural layout of the VDC includes a plurality of first level resource group categories and a plurality second level resource group categories;
wherein the cloud resource architectural layout includes a discrete instance of each one of the second level resource group categories being shown in association with each one of the first level resource group categories;
wherein each one of the resource groups is associated with a first resource parameter corresponding to a respective one of the first level resource group categories and with a second resource parameter corresponding to a respective one of the second level resource group categories;
wherein the visual depiction of each one of the resource groups includes each one of the resource groups being shown in association with the respective one of the first level resource group categories associated therewith;
wherein the visual depiction of each one of the resource groups includes a unique resource group identifier with respect to each other one of the resource groups;
wherein the visual depiction of each one of the resource groups indicates a number of provisioned instances of the resource group, a number of the provisioned instances of the resource group that are active, and a number of the provisioned instances of the resource group that are inactive; and
wherein when the current one of statuses of the VDC indicates the VDC is in a planning state, the visual depiction of each one of the resource groups indicates a number of instances of the resource group to be provisioned.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein creating each one of the resource groups includes instantiating functionality of each one of the resource groups using functionality of one or more cloud resources of a cloud resource provider specified in the resource group specification information associated therewith.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , further comprising:
in response to selection of the visual depiction of a particular one of the resource groups displayed during such selective display of the cloud resource architectural layout, causing at least a portion of the respective resource group specification information thereof to displayed;
wherein the at least a portion of the respective resource group specification information thereof uniquely characterizes a location of the VDC providing the one or more cloud resources and uniquely characterizes the cloud resource provider.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 3 , wherein creating each one of the resource groups includes instantiating functionality of each one of the resource groups using functionality of one or more cloud resources of a cloud resource provider specified in the resource group specification information associated therewith.

5. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 4 , further comprising:
in response to selection of the visual depiction of a particular one of the resource groups displayed during such selective display of the cloud resource architectural layout, causing at least a portion of the respective resource group specification information thereof to displayed;
wherein the at least a portion of the respective resource group specification information thereof uniquely characterizes a location of the VDC providing the one or more cloud resources and uniquely characterizes the cloud resource provider.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , further comprising:
in response to selection of the visual depiction of a particular one of the resource groups displayed during such selective display of the cloud resource architectural layout, causing at least a portion of the respective resource group specification information thereof to be displayed.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , further comprising:
in combination with display of the cloud resource architectural layout, causing display of a plurality of resource view selections that each correspond to a respective one of the resource group specification parameters of a first subset of the resource group specification parameters that define a configuration of the cloud resource architectural layout and configuring the cloud resource architectural layout in accordance with a respective multi-level filter arrangement corresponding to a selected one of the resource view selections displayed in combination with the cloud resource architectural layout.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 7 , wherein creating each one of the resource groups includes instantiating functionality of each one of the resource groups using functionality of one or more cloud resources of a cloud resource provider specified in the resource group specification information associated therewith.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 7 , further comprising
in response to selection of the visual depiction of a particular one of the cloud resource groups displayed during such selective display of the architectural layout, causing at least a portion of the respective resource group specification information thereof to displayed;
wherein the at least a portion of the respective resource group specification information thereof uniquely characterizes a location of the VDC providing the one or more cloud resources and uniquely characterizes the cloud resource provider.

10. A cloud services brokerage platform system, comprising:
at least one data processing device; and
a memory coupled to the at least one data processing device thereby allowing communication of information therebetween, wherein the memory has accessible therefrom instructions executable by the at least one data processing device instructions configured for causing the at least one data processing device to create an instantiation of a virtual data center (VDC) including a plurality of resource groups that each include one or more VDC resources having functionality thereof instantiated using functionality of one or more cloud resources of a selected one of a plurality of available cloud resource providers and to create an instantiation an architecture management interface for outputting information causing a visual depiction of each one of the resource groups to be displayed within an architectural layout that indicates a current one of a plurality of statuses of the VDC;
wherein the architectural layout includes a plurality of first level resource group categories and a plurality second level resource group categories;
wherein the architectural layout includes a discrete instance of each one of the second level resource group categories being shown in association with each one of the first level resource group categories;
wherein each one of the resource groups is associated with a first resource parameter corresponding to a respective one of the first level

Assignees

• Gravitant Inc
• IBM

Inventors

• Sapuram Raghunath
• Modh Manish Mahesh
• Narasimhan Balaji
• Grandhe Kishor

Classifications

• H04L43/062

  related to network traffic · CPC title

• H04L41/5054

  Automatic deployment of services triggered by the service manager, e.g. service implementation by automatic configuration of network components · CPC title

• G06Q40/00

  Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes · CPC title

• H04L41/145

  involving simulating, designing, planning or modelling of a network · CPC title

• G06F9/5077 Primary

  Logical partitioning of resources; Management or configuration of virtualized resources (specific details on emulation or internal functioning of virtual machines G06F9/455) · CPC title