Patent ID: 11861412
Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method for managing deployment of a converged infrastructure, the method comprising:
receiving a request to initiate a converged infrastructure (CI) deployment;
obtaining, in response to the request, a CI information set, wherein the CI information set comprises relevant details for a plurality of hardware devices included in the CI deployment, and wherein the plurality of hardware devices includes at least one network device;
creating a CI deployment file using the CI information set;
rendering a deployment user interface (UI) screen comprising a first UI selection mechanism for configuring the at least one network device and a second UI selection mechanism for configuring a CI cluster;
receiving a first user selection via the first UI selection mechanism to configure the at least one network device;
rendering, in response to the receiving the first user selection, a plurality of network device configuration screens to obtain network device configuration information;
adding the network device configuration information to the CI deployment file;
re-rending, after adding the network device configuration information to the CI deployment file, a deployment UI screen comprising the first UI selection mechanism and the second UI selection mechanism;
receiving a second user selection via the second UI selection mechanism to configure the CI cluster;
rendering, in response to the receiving the second user selection, a plurality of CI cluster configuration screens to obtain CI cluster configuration information,
wherein a first CI cluster configuration screen of the CI cluster configuration screens comprises a selection of a list of CI nodes,
wherein a second CI cluster configuration screen of the CI cluster configuration screens comprises a selection of CI clusters to join an existing virtualization environment,
wherein the CI cluster is specified in the selection of CI clusters, and
wherein a third CI cluster configuration screen of the CI cluster configuration screens is for configuring optional features of the CI deployment;

adding the CI cluster configuration information to the CI deployment file; and
deploying the CI using the CI deployment file.