Patent ID: 8892707
Filing Date: 2014-11-18
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of identifying a virtual application for backup in a cloud computing system comprising a cloud service layer and a virtual center layer, the cloud service layer comprising one or more virtual applications, the virtual center layer comprising one or more hypervisor-managed virtual machines, the method being performed at the virtual center layer and the method comprising: receiving, at the virtual center layer, a backup request from a tenant of the cloud computing system to back up a virtual application; in response to receiving the backup request, querying the cloud service layer for a listing of virtual applications, wherein querying the cloud service layer comprises: in response to querying the cloud service layer for the listing of virtual applications, receiving, at the virtual center layer, an attribute associated with the virtual application from the cloud service layer , the attribute associated with the virtual application being used, at the virtual center layer, to identify a hypervisor-managed virtual machine associated with the virtual application; parsing the attribute associated with the virtual application to identify a name and a numerical identifier of the hypervisor-managed virtual machine, the name and the numerical identifier being used by the virtual application to identify the hypervisor-managed virtual machine; combining the name with the numerical identifier to define an attribute associated with the hypervisor-managed virtual machine; and backing up the virtual application based on the attribute of the hypervisor-managed virtual machine.