Patent ID: 8924968

Claim:
A virtual machine management system comprising: a video image acquisition unit which acquires video image data of at least one physical server taken along with a machine identifying marker corresponding to said at least one physical server, said at least one physical server allowing at least one virtual server to run thereon, said machine identifying marker being represented by a specific pattern recognizable as the corresponding at least one physical server, said machine identifying marker labeling said corresponding at least one physical server, and said video image data of said at least one physical server not showing said at least one virtual server; a marker information storage device which stores said machine identifying marker and said at least one physical server, said machine identifying marker and said at least one physical server being associated with each other; a display unit which recognizes said specific pattern of the machine identifying marker from the video image acquired by said video image acquisition unit, identifies the corresponding at least one physical server based on said machine identifying marker by referring to said marker information storage device, acquires information regarding executable operations with respect to the identified at least one physical server and the virtual server runnable on said at least one physical server, from a management apparatus capable of operating said at least one physical server and said virtual server, and displays said information on a screen together with said video image of said physical server in an overlaid manner; an acceptance unit which accepts an operation instruction which is given to at least one of said identified at least one physical server and said identified at least one virtual server runnable on said at least one physical server; and an instruction unit which sends said operation instruction to said management apparatus, so that said management apparatus operates and controls said at least one physical server or said at least one virtual server in accordance with said operation instruction.