Patent ID: 8589543
Filing Date: 2013-11-19
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving state information representing the state of hardware devices supporting instantiations of virtual data centers operating within a physical data center; mapping the state information to hardware devices supporting a selected instantiation of a virtual data center to identify state information for the selected instantiation of a virtual data center; assessing, based on the state information for the selected instantiation of a virtual data center, a degree to which the selected instantiation of a virtual data center is operating in accordance with predetermined policy; and notifying a user of a status of the selected instantiation of a virtual data center based on the degree to which the selected instantiation of a virtual data center is operating in accordance with predetermined policy, wherein receiving state information comprises receiving state information from a plurality of probes, the state information being indicative of at least one of amount of storage in a storage hardware device or status of synchronized redundancy of data stored on the storage hardware device.