Patent ID: 8745503
Filing Date: 2014-06-03
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. A system comprising: a server environment including plural hardware servers, at least a first server of said servers including a hierarchy of partitions of said first server; and a management station having an administrative interface including a display to display alternate views of a graphical representation of said server environment, each of said views having graphical partition elements corresponding to at least some of said partitions nested within graphical server elements in that each nesting graphical server element has a border enclosing a respective nested graphical partition element, at least one of said views having first and second graphical partition elements nested within a third graphical partition element in that said third graphical server element has a border enclosing said first and second graphical partition elements, said graphical server elements corresponding to at least some of said hardware servers, at least some of said graphical partition elements containing links that when activated cause said graphical representation to switch to another of its views in which is highlighted a graphical partition element that was not highlighted in the previous view.