Patent ID: 8245086
Filing Date: 2012-08-14
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: receiving a request to simulate an outage of a hardware component, wherein the hardware component is selected from a plurality of hardware components of a computer system having a plurality of logical partitions; retrieving partition information for the computer system, wherein the partition information describes the hardware components assigned to each logical partition of the computer system; determining, based on the retrieved partition information, that a first logical partition of the plurality of logical partitions is one of: (i) affected and (ii) critically affected, by outage of the selected hardware component; wherein determining that the first logical partition is affected comprises determining that the first logical partition is assigned to at least one hardware component having an identical component type as the selected hardware component, and wherein determining that the first logical partition is critically affected comprises determining that the first logical partition is assigned to the selected hardware component and not assigned to any other hardware component having an identical component type as the selected hardware component; generating, by operation of one or more computer processors and based on the first logical partition, a virtual model of the computer system that portrays at least one hardware component of the plurality of hardware components of the computer system and a corresponding location in which the at least one hardware component is physically located in the computer system, wherein the virtual model of the computer system visually distinguishes, from each other: (i) the first logical partition and (ii) a second logical partition of the plurality of logical partitions, that is unaffected by outage of the selected hardware component; and outputting the virtual model responsive to the request to simulate the outage of the selected hardware component.