Patent ID: 9304797
Filing Date: 2016-04-05
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A virtual client management system comprising: a storage unit configured to store setting information, deployment results and tendency in usage information for each of a plurality of virtual machine clients, wherein the setting information includes at least a location of one or more data stores and a host name in a server apparatus, wherein the data stores comprise one or more storage areas that store data for the virtual machine clients; one or more virtual machine apparatus having a physical address that are communicatively coupled to a virtual client management apparatus; the virtual client management apparatus communicatively coupled to the storage unit and configured to: read the setting information and the tendency in usage from the storage unit for the virtual machine client; determine one of the virtual machine apparatus to assign the virtual machine client based on the tendency in usage read from the storage unit, transmit an instruction to deploy one of the virtual machine clients to a virtual client deployment apparatus, wherein the instruction to deploy includes the setting information read from the storage unit and the determined virtual machine apparatus; transmit a request to acquire the setting information for any of the virtual machine clients to the virtual client deployment apparatus that deployed the virtual machine clients on a hypervisor in response to the instruction to deploy; and the virtual client deployment apparatus communicatively coupled to the storage unit and the virtual client management apparatus and configured to: receive the instruction to deploy the virtual machine client, transmit deployment information to a virtual client apparatus, receive from the virtual client apparatus the deployment result that includes the physical address of the virtual client apparatus, and store the deployment results in the storage unit.