Configuration management for hybrid cloud

US10963283B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Nutanix, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Zihong Lu · Cupertino, US
• Deepak Vankadaru · San Jose, US
• Sarah Hernandez · Union City, US
• Shravan Satish Palyam · San Jose, US
• Sripradha Karkala · San Jose, US
• Rajesh Aavuty · Milpitas, US
• Harry Yang · Sunnyvale, US
• Shyama Sundar Duriseti · Pleasanton, US
• Sudhakar Kamanboina · San Jose, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 27, 2018
• Grant date: Mar 30, 2021
• Expiry date: Jun 21, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F2009/45595
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A system and method include tracking virtual entities in a hybrid cloud system. The method includes receiving, at a management processor of a virtual hybrid computing system, a migration request to move a virtual entity from a first cloud sub-system to a second cloud sub-system; adding, by the management processor, a source proxy object representing the virtual entity exiting the first cloud sub-system to a first database, wherein the source proxy object includes a destination identifier and an exit time; executing, by the management processor, a logical migration of the virtual entity from the first cloud sub-system to the second cloud subsystem; receiving, at the management processor, a management query including a query time corresponding to a time for which status information of the virtual entity is requested; determining, at the management processor, whether the query time is before the exit time of the source proxy object; and invoking, from the management processor, a first management software application program interface (API) for the first cloud sub-system when the query time is before the exit time of the source proxy object.