| 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 data descriptive of the software system included in the virtual appliance data structure, parameters for a virtual machine on which the software system of the virtual appliance data structure is deployable, and additional configuration data for the software system when deployed; based on the parameters for a virtual machine on which the software system of the virtual appliance data structure is deployable, 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; and transmitting data presentable in a view of the identified virtual machines on which the software system of the virtual appliance data structure can be deployed. |
