Secure Access to a Virtual Machine
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsRohith Kottamangalam Ashok, Daniel Everett Jemiolo, Todd Eric Kaplinger, Aaron Kyle Shook
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Abstract
A method for providing secure access to a virtual machine includes dispensing an image corresponding to a virtual machine from a management appliance to a distributed computing system such that the virtual machine is implemented by at least one of a plurality of interconnected physical computing devices in the distributed computing system; establishing a trusted relationship between the management appliance and the virtual machine; and providing a user with access to the virtual machine from the management appliance without further authentication credentials from the user.
Claims20
A method for providing secure access to a virtual machine, the method comprising:
- dispensing an image corresponding to a virtual machine from a management appliance to a distributed computing system such that said virtual machine is implemented by at least one of a plurality of interconnected physical computing devices in said distributed computing system;
- establishing a trusted relationship between said management appliance and said virtual machine;
- and
- providing a user with access to said virtual machine from said management appliance without further authentication credentials from said user.
A management appliance, said management appliance comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- a memory communicatively coupled to said at least one processor, said memory comprising executable code stored thereon such that said at least one processor, upon executing said executable code, is configured to:
- dispense an image corresponding to a virtual machine to a distributed computing system comprising a plurality of interconnected computing devices, such that at least one of said computing devices implements said virtual machine;
- establish a trusted relationship with said virtual machine;
- and
- provide an authenticated user with access to said virtual machine without further authentication credentials from said user.
A computer program product for providing secure access to a virtual machine on a distributed computing system comprising a plurality of interconnected physical computing systems, said computer program product comprising:
- a computer readable storage medium having computer readable code embodied therewith, said computer readable program code comprising:
- computer readable program code configured to dispense a virtual machine image from a management appliance to said distributed computing system;
- computer readable program code configured to establish a trusted relationship between said management appliance and said virtual machine image;
- and
- computer readable program code configured to provide a user with access to said virtual machine image from said management appliance without further authentication credentials from said user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.