MODELING THE TOPOLOGY OF MANAGEMENT SERVERS IN A DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM

摘要

Techniques disclosed herein enable efficient creation of models that represent connection topology of virtual machine (VM) management servers and site recovery manager (SRM) servers configured to provide VM recovery services across multiple locations. In operation, an SRM topology unit initializes a model to represent a VM management server. The SRM topology unit expands the model to represent a first SRM server that is logically connected to the VM management server and supports VM recovery at a first location. The SRM topology unit further expands the model to reflect a pairing relationship between the first SRM server and a second VM management server that supports VMs at a second location. Creating an easily-comprehended model in this hierarchical and automated fashion improves on conventional techniques where holistically evaluating the connection topology is predominantly a tedious and error-prone manual process.

主权项

1. A method of creating a model that represents connection topology of virtual machine (VM) management servers and recovery management servers in a distributed system, comprising:
selecting a first VM management server; initializing the model to represent the first VM management server; determining a logical connection from the first VM management server to a first recovery management server that supports VM recovery at a first location; expanding the model to represent the first recovery management server and the logical connection from the first VM management server to the first recovery management server; determining a logical connection from the first recovery management server to a second VM management server based on a pairing relationship, wherein the second VM management server supports VMs at a second location; and expanding the model to represent the second VM management server and the logical connection from the first recovery management server to the second VM management server.