Patent ID: 11921583
Assignee: VMWARE LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method of managing resources arranged in a hierarchy in at least one datacenter, the method comprising:
for a particular cluster of resources at a particular level in the hierarchy:
providing, to a parent cluster, detailed data for a first set of progeny clusters of the particular cluster that are within a maximum number of levels in the hierarchy from the particular level of the particular cluster;
providing, to the parent cluster, aggregated data for a second set of progeny clusters of the particular cluster that are beyond a maximum number of levels in the hierarchy from the particular level of the particular cluster; and
in response to a request from an ancestor cluster for detailed data for a particular progeny cluster in the second set, providing the requested detailed data to the ancestor cluster as part of a drill-down process performed by the ancestor cluster to obtain additional data regarding the particular progeny cluster.