Patent ID: 9733974
Date: 2017-08-15
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: causing display of a representation of a subset of a virtual machine environment, wherein components of the virtual machine environment include at least one host cluster, at least one host and a plurality of virtual machines, wherein the representation depicts the hierarchical relationships between user-selectable components corresponding to at least a subset of the components in the virtual machine environment; upon receiving a selection of a component determined to be a parent component having at least one child component in the virtual-machine environment: causing display of an indication of the state of the parent component, wherein if the display does not include a representation of the associated child components, causing display of the associated child components, indications of their performance states, and their hierarchical relationship to the selected parent component, wherein the virtual machine environment is modified using the display of the representation of the subset of the virtual machine environment by moving, adding or removing the user-selectable components corresponding to the components.