US Patent Application 18359746. HYBRID INVENTORY DATA SUMMARIZATION ACROSS HYBRID CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE simplified abstract
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HYBRID INVENTORY DATA SUMMARIZATION ACROSS HYBRID CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE
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Inventor(s)
Sachin Thakkar of San Jose CA (US)
Kiran Kumar Cherivirala of Bangalore (IN)
Sureshbabu Koyadan Chathoth of Bangalore (IN)
Shruti Parihar of Los Altos CA (US)
Narendra Kumar Basur Shankarappa of Palo Alto CA (US)
HYBRID INVENTORY DATA SUMMARIZATION ACROSS HYBRID CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE - A simplified explanation of the abstract
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18359746 titled 'HYBRID INVENTORY DATA SUMMARIZATION ACROSS HYBRID CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE
Simplified Explanation
- The patent application describes a method for collecting and reporting inventory of resources in a data center. - The inventory includes both hardware resources and virtual resources provisioned from the hardware. - The method involves executing API calls to collect inventory from both the virtualization management software and the cloud management server. - The collected inventory is stored for future reference. - When an inventory request is received from a central orchestrator, a subset of the stored inventory is initially sent to the orchestrator based on specified parameters. - Periodic updates to the subset of inventory are then sent to the orchestrator.
Original Abstract Submitted
A method of collecting and reporting inventory of resources deployed in a data center that includes hardware resources, a virtualization management software executed to provision virtual resources from the hardware resources, and a cloud management server executed to provision the virtual resources for tenants of the data center, includes the steps of: executing a first API call to the virtualization management software to collect first inventory of virtual resources deployed in the data center and a second API call to the cloud computing management software to collect second inventory of virtual resources deployed in the data center; storing the first and second inventory; and in response to an inventory request from a central orchestrator, initially sending a subset of the stored first and second inventory to the central orchestrator in accordance with parameters included in the inventory request, and thereafter sending updates to the subset to the central orchestrator periodically.
