AUTOMATED METHOD OF DETECTING PATTERN MATCHES BETWEEN CONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE MODELS AND AN OPERATING CONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE

摘要

A first technique is provided for automatically building multiple signature patterns representative of corresponding converged infrastructures (CIs), and a second technique is provided for automatically detecting pattern matches between one or more of the multiple signature patterns (and thus the model CIs) built using the first technique and an operating converged infrastructure (CI). Each of the signature patterns includes a compilation of component signatures representative of model compute, storage, and network components of the corresponding model CI. The second technique includes collecting component signatures from, and representative of, each of compute, storage, and network components of an operating converged infrastructure (CI), and pattern matching each of the collected component signatures against one or more of the signature patterns that represent the model CIs. The second technique also includes declaring match results based on the pattern matching.