Patent ID: 9535764
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method comprising: determining, at a first network device, capabilities of resources in a section of a data center that is accessible by the first network device, wherein the first network device is one of a plurality of network devices providing access to resources in different sections of the data center and the first network device is directly connected to the resources the first network device is determining the capabilities of, wherein the capabilities include at least one of available processing capabilities, available storage, available load balancing capabilities or any combination thereof; based on determining the capabilities of the resources, grouping, by a processor on the first network device, the resources into a resource cluster, wherein a resource cluster is a grouping of resources with similar features in the data center; advertising, at the first network device, the resource cluster in the data center, wherein each of the plurality of network devices advertise a resource cluster associated with one or more of the different sections of the data center that are accessible using each of the plurality of network devices, wherein a second network device is configured to: