Patent ID: 8918488

Claim:
A method for automated management of virtual resources in a cloud computing environment, the method comprising: directing, by a storage delivery management service, provisioning, on a storage system in a storage area network, of a virtual storage resource for a virtual machine executing on a first computing device comprising at least one network port; transmitting, by the storage delivery management service, to the storage system, an identification of the at least one network port on the first computing device to associate with the virtual storage resource; transmitting, by the storage delivery management service, to the first computing device, an instruction to retrieve an identification of the provisioned virtual storage resource and an identification of at least one network port on the storage system; receiving, by the storage delivery management service, from a virtual machine migration component in communication with the storage delivery management service via a broker computing device, an indication through the broker computing device of a migration in progress of the virtual machine from the first computing device to a second computing device; transmitting, by the storage delivery management service, to the storage system, an identification of at least one network port on the second computing device to associate with the virtual storage resource; and transmitting, by the storage delivery management service, to the second computing device, an instruction to retrieve an identification of the provisioned virtual storage resource and an identification of the at least one network port on the storage system.