Patent ID: 8539484

Claim:
A system comprising: a first computing system including non-volatile storage and a first hypervisor, the first hypervisor configured to support a plurality of virtual machines on the first computing system and to receive commands according to a first hypervisor protocol; a second computing system including non-volatile storage and a second hypervisor, the second hypervisor configured to support a plurality of virtual machines on the second computing system and to receive commands according to a second hypervisor protocol, the first hypervisor protocol and the second hypervisor protocol having first and second command spaces, respectively; a first management server configured to manage the first hypervisor according to the first hypervisor protocol; and a transform server configured to process a command sent from the first management server to the second computing system, the processing being based on virtual machine data stored on the non-volatile storage the second computing system, the second computing system including a first transform agent configured to: a) redirect commands received from the first management server to the transform server, b) determine whether or not processing of the command is dependent on the virtual machine data, and c) translate the command into a command within the command space of the second hypervisor and to communicate the translated command to the second hypervisor, if the processing is not dependent on the virtual machine data.