METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR PROXYING, AGGREGATING AND OPTIMIZING VIRTUAL MACHINE INFORMATION FOR NETWORK-BASED MANAGEMENT

摘要

A method, apparatus and system enable a management virtual machine to act as a proxy for other virtual machines on a virtual machines host. In one embodiment, the management virtual machine may maintain a database of network management information pertaining to each virtual machine on the host. An enhanced virtual machine manager on the host may provide an interface to the management virtual machine to enable the management virtual machine to trap management messages destined for virtual machines on the host. The management virtual machine may respond to the messages based on information in the database and/or issue queries to the virtual machines to obtain the requisite information. In one embodiment, the management virtual machine may aggregate the information from various virtual machines prior to responding to the network management message.