Hybrid inventory data summarization using various input schema across hybrid cloud infrastructure

US11755383B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• VMware LLC · US

Inventors

• Sachin Thakkar · San Jose, US
• Kiran Kumar Cherivirala · Kanchinakote, IN
• Sureshbabu Koyadan Chathoth · Bengaluru, IN
• Umar Shaikh · Kanchinakote, IN
• Shruti Parihar · Los Altos, US
• Narendra Kumar Basur Shankarappa · Palo Alto, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 22, 2020
• Grant date: Sep 12, 2023
• Expiry date: Oct 14, 2041

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F2209/503
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

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.