公开(公告)号：US20150046926A1

公开(公告)日：2015-02-12

申请号：US14523795

申请日：2014-10-24

Applicant: NetApp Inc.

Inventor： Deepak Kenchammana-Hosekote ,  Eric Paul Forgette ,  Shravan Geonkar

IPC: G06F9/455 ,  G06F17/30

CPC classification number: G06F9/45533 ,  G06F9/455 ,  G06F9/45558 ,  G06F17/30233 ,  G06F2009/45566

Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for describing virtual machine dependencies. In particular, data objects, such as virtual hard drives, associated with virtual machines may be identified and/or examined to identify data structures, such as configuration files, comprising configuration data. The configuration data may be analyzed to determine dependency relationships between virtual machines to describe virtual machine dependencies. Identifying virtual machine dependencies, among other things, allows virtual machines that are no longer used to be repurposed, deleted, reset, etc. with little to no adverse effect on other virtual machines.

Abstract translation: 提供一个或多个技术和/或系统来描述虚拟机依赖性。 特别地，可以识别和/或检查与虚拟机相关联的数据对象，例如虚拟硬盘驱动器，以识别包括配置数据的数据结构，例如配置文件。 可以分析配置数据以确定虚拟机之间的依赖关系以描述虚拟机依赖性。 识别虚拟机相关性，除其他外，允许不再使用的虚拟机被重新利用，删除，重置等，对其他虚拟机几乎没有任何不利影响。