Patent ID: 8473615
Filing Date: 2013-06-25
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A virtualization control system to control partitioning of physical resources of a utility computing platform into virtual resources including virtual processor, memory and storage resources, the virtualization control system comprising: a customer console application, accessible via an Internet connection to a customer computing system operating a web browser interface, the customer console application enabling the customer, through the web browser interface, to create and manage one or more virtual servers, within a virtual computing environment and provided by the utility computing platform, by associating an amount of virtual processor, memory, and storage resources with the one or more virtual servers, the customer console application providing a graphical user interface through the web browser interface, the graphical user interface including a virtual resource display that graphically and textually displays an amount of virtual processor, memory, and storage resources associated with a selected virtual computing environment, wherein the graphical user interface includes a virtual server selector that enables the customer to select a virtual server from within the selected virtual computing environment for display through the graphical user interface, wherein the virtual server display is organized into a plurality of rows that each display one or more of the groups of the deployed virtual servers, and wherein the one or more groups to display in each of the plurality of rows are customizable by the customer.