INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT OF CENTRALLY MODIFIED SOFTWARE SYSTEMS

摘要

Various embodiments here in provide systems, methods, and software for integrated management of centrally modified software systems. Some embodiments include a landscape virtualization management application through which software systems in the form of virtual appliances may be selected, deployed, and started. The virtual appliance in such embodiments may have been transported to an implementing organization, encapsulated in a virtual appliance, in a preconfigured and pre-modified form.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
receiving, in a virtual landscape management application executable by at least one processor, data identifying a virtual appliance stored in a virtual appliance repository and data identifying a virtual machine to which the virtual appliance is to be deployed; connecting to a storage subsystem of a virtual computing landscape of the identified virtual machine, creating a structure on the storage subsystem within which to store the virtual appliance, the structure created according to virtual appliance metadata of the identified virtual machine, and copying the virtual appliance from the virtual appliance repository to the created structure; executing an attach utility to instantiate the virtual appliance on the virtual machine according to the virtual appliance metadata and starting the virtual appliance once instantiated; and registering the instantiated virtual appliance with the virtual landscape management application to allow management of the virtual appliance via the virtual landscape management application.