Server system ring topology user interface system
AssigneeVMware, Inc.
InventorsSanket Bindle, Rohit Toshniwal, Mukul Gupta, Shiv Agarwal
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Abstract
A computerized visualization system includes a computer system management system that provides modeling of a computer system having physical entities and virtual entities and a computer display screen having rendered thereon an arrangement of active icons corresponding to physical and virtual entities included in the computer system, the icons being arranged in concentric circular rings having arc segments corresponding to physical host computers.
Claims20
A computerized visualization system (“visualization system”), the visualization system comprising:
- a computer display screen;
- and
- a management system that provides modeling of a computer system having physical entities and virtual entities;
- wherein the management system is configured to render a ring topology on the computer display screen, the ring topology including:
- a center;
- a plurality of concentric rings;
- an arrangement of plural active icons corresponding to the physical entities and the virtual entities included in the computer system, each of the plural active icons being arranged within one of the center and an arc segment of a respective one of the plurality of concentric rings;
- wedge elements corresponding to physical hosts of the computer system, each wedge element of the wedge elements:
- is defined at least by a respective set of arc segments of the concentric rings extending over a respective angular segment of the ring topology;
- and
- includes a portion of the plural active icons representing virtual machines associated with a physical host corresponding to the wedge element;
- and
- connections between a portion of the physical entities that connect the physical hosts represented by the wedge elements.
A computerized visualization method, the method comprising:
- modeling of a computer system having physical entities and virtual entities;
- and
- rendering a ring topology on a computer display screen, the ring topology including:
- a center;
- a plurality of concentric rings;
- an arrangement of plural active icons corresponding to the physical entities and the virtual entities included in the computer system, each of the plural active icons being arranged within one of the center and an arc segment of a respective one of the plurality of concentric rings;
- wedge elements corresponding to physical hosts of the computer system, each wedge element of the wedge elements:
- is defined at least by a respective set of arc segments of the concentric rings extending over a respective angular segment of the ring topology;
- and
- includes a portion of the plural active icons representing virtual machines associated with a physical host corresponding to the wedge element;
- and
- connections between a portion of the physical entities that connect the physical hosts represented by the wedge elements.
A non-transitory, computer-readable medium containing instructions that, when executed by a processor of a computing device, perform stages for displaying a visualization of a computer system having physical entities and virtual entities, the stages comprising:
- modeling the computer system;
- and
- displaying a ring topology for the computer system, the ring topology, as displayed, including:
- a center;
- a plurality of concentric rings;
- an arrangement of plural active icons corresponding to the physical entities and the virtual entities included in the computer system, each of the plural active icons being arranged within one of the center and an arc segment of a respective one of the plurality of concentric rings;
- wedge elements corresponding to physical hosts of the computer system, each wedge element of the wedge elements:
- is defined at least by a respective set of arc segments of the concentric rings extending over a respective angular segment of the ring topology;
- and
- includes a portion of the plural active icons representing virtual machines associated with a physical host corresponding to the wedge element;
- connections between a portion of the physical entities that connect the physical hosts represented by the wedge elements.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.