Deployed application factory reset

摘要

A method and apparatus for integrating a converged infrastructure platform in a data center is provided. The described apparatus configures the physical and virtual resources that run on the converged infrastructure to communicate with the rest of the data center. The described apparatus further enables a system administrator to rollback configurations of the physical and virtual resources of the converged infrastructure to restore the converged infrastructure to a factory state.

主权项

1. A method for installing an integrated computing platform into an existing computing environment, the method comprising:
using a template associated with an application, obtaining a snapshot of a configuration state of a plurality of networking, storage, computing, and virtualized resources of the integrated computing platform that are to be used by the application; configuring the integrated computing platform to communicate with at least one service running in an existing computing environment that is separate from the integrated computing platform, wherein the integrated computing platform includes the application having a plurality of functional components using a plurality of the networking, storage, computing, and virtualized resources of the integrated computing platform; restoring, using the snapshot, each of the plurality of networking, storage, computing, and virtualized resources associated with the application to a state prior to the configuring the integrated computing platform to communicate with the service running in the existing computing environment outside of the integrated computing platform.