Patent ID: 8381033

Claim:
A method for fault management in virtual computing environments, comprising: monitoring a plurality of fault events from a plurality of virtual machines and a plurality of host devices in a virtual computing environment; monitoring a plurality of situation events in the virtual computing environment, wherein each of the situation events corresponds to a virtual machine name and a host device name, wherein the situation events are monitored by a monitoring system from which a probe feeds one or more event alerts, and wherein the situation events include an indication of one or more relations between one or more of the virtual machines, one or more of the host devices, and one or more of the host fault events; in response to monitoring the fault events and monitoring the situation events, identifying one or more selected fault events from the plurality of fault events, wherein the selected fault events affect both one or more of the virtual machines and one or more of the host devices; and in response to the identifying, correlating one or more of the selected fault events as relating to a same problem.