Patent ID: 9426024
Filing Date: 2016-08-23
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: identifying a plurality of virtual machine nodes in an enterprise network in view of an ontology describing the operational usage and state of the plurality of virtual machines; deploying a plurality of agents to the plurality of virtual machine nodes while the plurality of virtual machine nodes are connected to the enterprise network, wherein each agent is to establish communication with the enterprise network after migration of a respective virtual machine node to a cloud infrastructure; migrating, by a processing device, a virtual machine node of the plurality of virtual machine nodes to the cloud infrastructure external to the enterprise network, the virtual machine node having an agent of the plurality of agents, wherein the agent is to track information regarding one or more network connections of the virtual machine node; responsive to the migration of the virtual machine node to the cloud infrastructure, re-establishing communication between the virtual machine node in the cloud infrastructure and the enterprise network using the agent that causes data traffic to be communicated between the virtual machine node in the cloud infrastructure and the enterprise network in view of the tracked information regarding the one or more network connections; and updating the ontology in view of the re-established communication between the virtual machine node in the cloud infrastructure and the enterprise network, wherein the updating is facilitated by the agent.