VIRTUAL APPLIANCE CHAINING AND MANAGEMENT

摘要

Management of virtual resources may be provided by interconnecting a plurality of virtual appliances with common executable software services. A data packet may be sent through multiple virtual appliances invoking services within each if rules stored within respective virtual appliances correspond to a request for service in the data packet. The data packet may be passed through multiple virtual appliances prior to being returned to a hypervisor.

主权项

1. A computer program product for managing virtual appliances, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code being configured to:
interconnect a plurality of virtual appliances; provide a plurality of software services executable within each of the virtual appliances; provide, for each virtual appliance, a rules module corresponding to the plurality of software services; and determine for a data packet passed through the plurality of virtual appliances whether a first virtual appliance receiving the data packet should execute the one or more software services according to the rules module or pass the data packet on to a second virtual appliance.