Patent Document ID: 9021097
Application ID: 13466224
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for managing and deploying physical and virtual environments across multiple hardware platforms, the method comprising: presenting, by a processor of a management blade of a cloud construction block, a user interface to manage modular pieces of hardware of one or more cloud construction blocks, wherein said modular pieces of hardware of the one or more cloud construction blocks are used to build a cloud computing environment by deploying physical and virtual machines in the one or more cloud construction blocks, wherein said modular pieces of hardware comprises compute hardware, memory hardware, storage hardware and network hardware, wherein said management blade is located within the one or more cloud construction blocks, wherein said management blade is coupled to said modular pieces of hardware within the one or more cloud construction blocks; recognizing additional or fewer modular units of one or more of said compute hardware, said memory hardware, said storage hardware and said network hardware in the one or more cloud construction blocks from a last determination time; and adjusting cloud capacity available to a user based on said recognizing of additional or fewer modular units of one or more of said compute hardware, said memory hardware, said storage hardware and said network hardware in the one or more cloud construction blocks, wherein said adjusting said cloud capacity available to said user comprises rebalancing cloud capacity resources to service said user, wherein said rebalancing comprises relocating one or more virtual machines from one cloud construction block to another cloud construction block, adding one or more virtual machines to a cloud construction block, relocating one or more virtual machines within a cloud construction block and any combination thereof.