公开(公告)号：US20240036910A1

公开(公告)日：2024-02-01

申请号：US18319351

申请日：2023-05-17

Applicant: VMware, Inc.

Inventor： Nicholas Mark Grant Stephen ,  Santoshkumar Kavadimatti ,  Saurabh Kedia

IPC: G06F9/455

CPC classification number: G06F9/45558 ,  G06F2009/4557

Abstract: The current document is directed to a meta-level management system (“MMS”) that aggregates information and functionalities provided by multiple underlying management systems in addition to providing additional information and management functionalities. In one implementation, the MMS creates and maintains a single inventory-and-configuration-management database (“ICMDB”), implemented using a graph database, to store a comprehensive inventory of managed entities known to, and managed by, the multiple underlying management systems. Each managed entity is associated with an entity identifier and is represented in the ICMBD by a node. Managed entities that are managed by two or more of the multiple underlying management systems are represented by nodes that include references to one or more namespaces. Each of the underlying management systems is associated with at least one data collector that collects inventory and configuration information from the underlying management system for storing within ICMDB nodes and ICMDB-node namespaces.

公开(公告)号：US11595266B2

公开(公告)日：2023-02-28

申请号：US16654051

申请日：2019-10-16

Applicant: VMware, Inc.

Inventor： Santoshkumar Kavadimatti ,  Chandrashekhar Jha ,  Gerin Jacob ,  Naveen Mudnal ,  Rajat Garg

IPC: H04L41/14 ,  G06F9/455 ,  H04L67/10 ,  H04L41/0806 ,  G06F9/54

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to detect drift in a hybrid cloud environment. An example apparatus to detect drift in a hybrid cloud environment includes a configuration model determiner to, after deployment of a blueprint in the hybrid cloud environment, generate a first model including first relationships of a first plurality of resources corresponding to the blueprint, the blueprint including a plurality of properties in which at least one of the plurality of properties is agnostic of type of cloud, an inventor model determiner to generate a second model including second relationships of a second plurality of resources as deployed in the hybrid cloud environment based on the blueprint, and a drift determiner to determine a drift value based on the first relationships and the second relationships, the drift value representative of a difference between the first relationships and the second relationships.