Patent ID: 9098320
Filing Date: 2015-08-04
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of provisioning a Virtual Private Data Center (VPDC), comprising: providing a design user interface to a user including controls to select and configure computing hardware resources to be allocated to the VPDC of the user in a data center; receiving the computing hardware resource configuration selections from the user; comparing the computing hardware resource configuration selections to component compatibility information of each selected computing hardware resource in a configuration management database (CMDB), the CMDB storing a list of specific device instances for each of the computing hardware resources in the data center and compatibility information for different configurations of the specific device instances; validating responsive to the comparing that the configuration selections are compatible with each other; if validated, constructing a provisioning data structure based on the validated configuration selections including the user selected computing hardware resources and the user selected configuration of the selected computing hardware resources from the validated configuration settings; populating the provisioning data structure with specific device instances from the list of components in the CMDB; and generating a provisioning manifest to a data center provisioning system for provisioning the VPDC, the provisioning manifest including instructions for automatically provisioning the specific device instances specified in the provisioning data structure with the user selected configuration specified in the provisioning data structure.