US 2018/0321961 A1 · TIERED APPLICATION DISCOVERY

Abstract

The technology disclosed herein enables identification of multi-tiered applications in virtual computing elements. In a particular embodiment, a method provides identifying a plurality of guest elements executing on one or more host computing systems for a virtual computing environment and categorizing each of the plurality of guest elements into a tier group of a plurality of tier groups. The method further provides monitoring communication traffic between the plurality of guest elements and determining a multi-tiered application for each of the plurality of guest elements based on the communication traffic.

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Dependent claims

A method of identifying multi-tiered applications, the method comprising:

identifying a plurality of guest elements executing on one or more host computing systems for a virtual computing environment;
categorizing each of the plurality of guest elements into a tier group of a plurality of tier groups;
monitoring communication traffic between the plurality of guest elements;
and
determining a multi-tiered application for each of the plurality of guest elements based on the communication traffic.

2 more elements

A system for identifying multi-tiered applications, the system comprising:

one or more computer readable storage media;
a processing system operatively coupled with the one or more computer readable storage media;
and
program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable storage media that, when read and executed by the processing system, direct the processing system to:
identify a plurality of guest elements executing on one or more host computing systems for a virtual computing environment;
categorize each of the plurality of guest elements into a tier group of a plurality of tier groups;
monitor communication traffic between the plurality of guest elements;
and
determine a multi-tiered application for each of the plurality of guest elements based on the communication traffic.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

15/585,329Filed 3 May 2017

Published

8 Nov 2018

Term ends

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Classification4 codes

G06F 9/45545
Hypervisors; Virtual machine monitors: guest-host, i.e. hypervisor is an application program itself, e.g. VirtualBox
G06F 9/45558
Hypervisors; Virtual machine monitors: hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects
G06F 2009/45591
Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects: monitoring or debugging support
G06F
Computing and data processing

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Abstract

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