Patent ID: 11949583
Assignee: HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 15:
16. A non-transitory storage medium to store machine-readable instructions that, when executed by a machine, cause the machine to:
access data representing an actual network infrastructure state that is associated with a compute appliance, wherein the actual network infrastructure state includes a first address of a network access point that is associated with the compute appliance and a first physical location that is associated with the compute appliance;
verify compliance of the actual network infrastructure state with a reference network infrastructure state for the compute appliance, wherein the verification comprises verifying whether the first address is the same as an address specified by the reference network infrastructure state and verifying whether the first physical location is the same as a physical location specified by the reference network infrastructure state;
responsive to the verification, control whether the compute appliance is permitted to join a cloud-based computing system; and
determine a performance criteria of a software defined network (SDN) connection associated with the compute appliance,
wherein verifying the compliance comprises comparing the performance criteria to a reference criteria of the reference network infrastructure state.