| 摘要 |
Various embodiments here in provide systems, methods, and software for virtual appliance integration with cloud management software. Some embodiments include a landscape virtualization management application through which software systems in the form of virtual appliances may generated and deployed. Further, metadata included in a data structure of a virtual appliance enable integration with existing cloud management software to allow viewing and searching for available virtual appliances and selecting, deployment, and management thereof. |
| 主权项 |
1. A method comprising:
reading metadata of a virtual appliance data structure, the virtual appliance data structure including executable files, configuration data, software system content, and other data of a software system stored on a data storage device and deployable to a virtual machine, the metadata including identifications of the executable files, the configuration data, the software system content, and the other data in the virtual appliance data structure as well as data defining a data storage structure in which the executable files, the configuration data, the software system content, and the other data in the virtual appliance data structure are to be deployed; based on the metadata, identifying, in a dataset representative of virtual machines present in a virtual computing landscape, virtual machines on which the software system of the virtual appliance data structure can be deployed; receiving a command to attach the software system of the virtual appliance data structure to one of the identified virtual machines; and in response to the receiving of the command, connecting to a storage subsystem of the virtual computing landscape, creating a structure on the storage subsystem within which to store the virtual appliance data structure, the structure created according to data defining the data storage structure in the metadata, and copying, to the structure, the virtual appliance data structure. |
