Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Byron R Deadwiler

Lyle Eric Wilkinson

Mark Rozhin

Yehia S Beyh

Mike Traynor

Edgar Circenis

Bryan J Jacquot

Juliano Godinho Varaschin De Moraes

Phillip J Hudson

Sanjay Singh

Bapugouda Patil

An administrator selects a logical server for deployment. In response, a logical-server management program displays representations of potential real-server targets for said logical server. The representations include respective ratings for the real-server targets. The representations further include indications of a real-server technology involved in deploying said logical server to a respect real-server target.

Logical server management interface displaying real-server technologies

A deployed logical server is created by importing specifications, including a first network identity, of a first real server so that the logical server is stored in a logical-server database. The initially deployed logical server is released from the real server, and a second network identity is assigned to the first real server. The logical server is redeployed on a second real server so that it continues to be associated, in the logical-server database, with the first network identity and respective compute, storage, and network requirements.

Deploying and releasing logical servers

An administrator selects a representation of a logical server on a display. The logical server is stored in a logical-server database. The logical-server database stores logical-servers and specifies their resource requirements and network identities. The logical servers are deployable to physical and/or virtual real servers. A logical-server manager program responds to the selection by displaying a warning symbol. The administrator interacts with the warning symbol, and the logical-server manager program responds by displaying a message specifying that the real server is unsuitable or impaired as a host for deployment of the logical server.

Warnings for logical-server target hosts

A logical-server manager provides for deployment of a logical server to a real server so a network identity of said logical server and a network identity of said real server are conformed.

Logical server management

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Union City, CA, United States of America

Byron R Deadwiler