Methods and apparatus for movement of virtual resources within a data center environment

A non-transitory processor-readable medium storing code representing computer readable instructions to be executed by one or more processors, the code comprising code to:

• process a multi-tiered mapping of operational relationships between virtual resources including at least a first operational relationship between the virtual resources and a second operational relationship between the virtual resources;
• receive an indicator that a performance metric representing performance of a virtual resource within a source data center resource satisfies a threshold condition;
• identify and manage movement of (1) a set of virtual resources from a plurality of virtual resources and (2) a portion of data center resources from a pool of data center resources to operate the set of virtual resources, based on a combination of the multi-tiered mapping of operational relationships between virtual resources from the plurality of virtual resources and availability information related to the pool of data center resources;
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• move a set of virtual resources including the first virtual resource from a first portion of data center hardware resources to a second portion of data center hardware resources mutually exclusive from the first portion of data center hardware resources in response to the indicator.

A non-transitory processor-readable medium storing code representing computer readable instructions to be executed by one or more processors, the code comprising code to:

• process a multi-tiered mapping of operational relationships between virtual resources including at least a first operational relationship between the virtual resources and a second operational relationship between the virtual resources,
• identify and manage movement of a set of virtual resources based on the multi-tiered mapping of operational relationships between virtual resources and availability information related to a pool of data center resources;
• receive an indicator that a performance metric representing performance of a virtual resource when executing within a first data center cluster satisfies a threshold condition, the first data center cluster being defined by a first hypervisor platform;
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• move, in response to the indicator, the first virtual resource and a second virtual resource having an operational relationship with the first virtual resource to a second data center cluster when the second data center cluster has hardware resources available to operate the first virtual resource and the second virtual resource, the second data center cluster being defined by a second hypervisor module different from the first hypervisor platform.

A method for managing virtual resources within a data center environment, the method comprising:

• processing a multi-tiered mapping of operational relationships between virtual resources including a first operational relationship between virtual resources and a second operational relationship between the virtual resources;
• processing an indicator representing that performance of the a virtual resource satisfies a threshold condition;
• defining and managing movement of the virtual resources based on the multi-tiered mapping of operational relationships and availability information related to a pool of data center resources;
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• processing instructions to move a set of virtual resources including the first virtual resource from a first portion of data center hardware resources to a second portion of data center hardware resources mutually exclusive from the first portion of data center hardware resources in response to the indicator.