Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP

Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P.

Fredrick M Roeling

Roland M Hochmuth

Bryan J Jacquot

Travis Scott Tripp

Christopher Michael Carlozzi

Ryan Brandt

Venkateswaran Tharuvai Sundaram

Eric Soderberg

Bret Alan McKee

Blaine R Southam

Jason D Goldman

Peter Erik Mellquist

Yehia S Beyh

David J Lachelt

Peter Thomas Houck

Jagadish Vattigunta Reddy

Dharmendra Muthu

Jonathan Jay Lowe

Paul A Stoecker

Example implementations relate to a logical rack controller. In an example, a logical rack controller receives an inventory of a plurality of physical computing racks. The logical rack controller receives a logical rack definition that indicates selected physical infrastructure from among the inventory to form a logical rack. The logical rack controller validates the logical rack definition by verifying network connectivity of the selected physical infrastructure. After validation of the logical rack definition, the logical rack controller provides, to a provisioning controller, an interface to the logical rack. The provisioning controller can utilize the interface to access the logical rack.

Logical rack controller

Example implementations relate to calculating a weighted efficiency index. An example implementation includes fetching a public resource utilization metric and a public cloud resources cost. A private resource utilization metric is collected and a private cloud resources cost is calculated. A weighted efficiency index is calculated from the public cloud resources cost, the private cloud resources cost, or any combination thereof, and a weighted deviation from an ideal resource utilization percentage. The weighted efficiency index may be displayed on a user interface.

Efficiency indexes

Examples relate to provisioning and activating hardware devices. In one example, a computing device may receive a request for a hardware resource; identify, in response to the request, a new hardware resource having hardware attributes indicating at least one capability of the new hardware resource; determine, based on the hardware attributes, a hardware template for provisioning the new hardware resource; configure the new hardware resource using the hardware template; and activate the new hardware resource in a cluster of at least one hardware device.

Provisioning and activating hardware resources

A method for deployment of policy to a target connected to a network for the purpose of controlling the actions of that target based upon certain predefined conditions. The policy contains one or more policy rules with each rule defining conditions that when evaluated true trigger actions to allow or deny quality of service related resources (e.g., bandwidth or priority). Techniques are disclosed which provide for policy implementation in an aggregation rather than one at a time. The number of steps that a user must perform to implement policy in the network is reduced, the user can group a related set of policies, and all of the targets destined to receive policy changes can do so at approximately the same time, so device configuration changes can be coordinated. Having initiated an aggregated policy change, the user can track the status of the aggregate operation as well as the individual status changes which comprise the aggregate operation. In representative embodiments, users are able to see how individual targets are responding to the policy deployed to them, as well as recognize when the aggregate set of operations has completed. In a similar manner, policy can be aggregated for undeployment and the subsequent undeployment tracked on a computer.

Aggregated policy deployment and status propagation in network management systems

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Fort Collins, CO, United States of America

Fredrick M Roeling