Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP

Lyle Eric Wilkinson

Mark Rozhin

Byron R Deadwiler

Yehia S Beyh

Bryan J Jacquot

Phillip J Hudson

Mike Traynor

Edgar Circenis

Juliano Godinho Varaschin De Moraes

James L Sayer

Sanjay Singh

Bapugouda Patil

Susan L Campbell

Examples herein disclose receiving a first topology map that is to describe a desired software configuration for at least one of multiple components in a system. The examples disclose accessing a second topology map that is to describe a current software configuration for at least one of the multiple components in the system. The examples determine based on the first topology map and the second topology map whether the desired software configuration differs from the current software configuration. Responsive to the determination that the desired software configuration differs from the current software configuration, the examples identify which at least one of the multiple components to upgrade.

Identification of a component for upgrade

Mass storage is allocated to a logical server. The logical server is deployed to a real server.

Allocating mass storage to a logical server

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.

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Sunnyvale, CA, United States of America

Lyle Eric Wilkinson