公开(公告)号：US09946565B2

公开(公告)日：2018-04-17

申请号：US14755254

申请日：2015-06-30

Applicant: VMware, Inc.

Inventor： Ivaylo Petkov Strandzhev ,  Asen Alexandrov ,  Danail Grigorov ,  Ilko Dragoev

IPC: G06F15/173 ,  G06F9/455 ,  H04L29/08 ,  H04L12/24

CPC classification number: G06F9/45558 ,  G06F2009/45595 ,  H04L41/044 ,  H04L67/02 ,  H04L67/2823

Abstract: The current document is directed to methods for aggregating host computers into distributed computing systems and to distributed computing systems created by the methods. In a described implementation, host computers are aggregated into two or more clusters, at a first distributed-computing-system level, each managed by a second-level management server. The two or more clusters are then, in turn, aggregated into a hierarchical distributed computing system managed by a top-level management server. The top-level management server is interconnected to, and accesses, the second-level management servers through a host-gateway appliance that includes host-gateway control logic implemented within a server computer. In order to achieve scalability and efficiency, the top-level management server provides a subset of the native management commands to system administrators and other users who access a management interface provided by the top-level management server.