Patent ID: 9069588
Filing Date: 2015-06-30
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: detecting a trigger event indicative of a selection of a first entity in a first portion of a data center network to be represented in a second portion of the data center network; examining a specification of relationships that exist between pairs of entities in the first portion of the data center network to identify a set of entities with which the first entity has respective relationships, and identify a first set of logical disks that comprise a storage footprint of the first entity and each respective entity of the set of the entities; establishing a communication with each storage type entity in the first portion of the data center network that contains a logical disk of the first set of logical disks, and generating a snapshot of a state of each respective logical disk of the first set of logical disks; generating a time-fixed data image representative of the state of the first set of logical disks at a particular point in time; and initiating a cloned instance of the first entity in the second portion of the data center network based at least in part on the time-fixed data image.