Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P.

Hewlett-packard Company

Roy L Johnson

John Liddell Long

Michael A Kingdom

Kurt M Olender

Bryan J Jacquot

Philip Michael Walker

Blaine R Southam

Rheid Schloss

Michael A Scheetz

Brian John O'Keefe

Aland B Adams

Gerald P Duggan

Thomas Rudolph Batcha

Kipper Kyle Fulghum

Thomas Joseph Walton

Alassane Sene

Eric J Kuzara

Michael T Juran

Edgar Circenís

Paul D Grubb

Todd D Reedy

Thomas F Kraemer

Bryan J Jaquot

Scot Greenidge

Martin A Casillas

The present invention provides a system and method for managing a network. In response to an original request, a management station sends an augmented request to a remote server for information fulfilling the original request plus additional information available.

Managed computer network caching requested and related data from remote computers

A system includes a server environment and a management station. The server environment includes hardware servers. At least some of the servers can be characterized by a hierarchy of partitions. The management station provides an administrative interface. The administrative interface provides a display that displays alternate views of a graphical representation of the server environment. Each of the views has graphical partition elements corresponding to at least some of the partitions nested with graphic server elements corresponding to at least some of the hardware servers. At least some of the graphical partition elements include links that, when activated, cause the graphical representation to switch to another of its views in which is highlighted a graphical partition element that was not highlighted in the previous view.

Graphical interface for managing server environment

A method of computer system provisioning comprises defining a container as a plurality of computer system resources sufficient to run a workload, defining a workload as a set of processes executable on the container and monitored as a single entity, and modeling the container and/or the workload as a template that contains at least some of information for deploying the container and/or the workload.

Computer system provisioning using templates

In one embodiment, a server is provisioned to a client by: 1) pre-booting a server of a server pool using a client-neutral operating system image, before the server is provisioned to the client; 2) provisioning the pre-booted server to a virtual network of the client; 3) mounting client storage volumes to the provisioned server; and then 4) processing a client-specific configuration file. Other related methods and apparatus are also disclosed.

Methods and apparatus for provisioning servers to clients

In one embodiment, and under control of resources belonging to a controller domain of a data center, a farm server for which a backup operation is to be performed is identified. Interfaces of backup services belonging to the controller domain are then virtually associated with the first farm network. Thereafter, the farm server and backup services are registered in a backup domain of the data center, the backup domain being associated with backup storage. Via the backup services that have been associated with the first farm network, and during execution of the backup operation by the farm server, movement of backup data from the first farm network to the backup storage is facilitated by the method. After completing the backup operation, the farm server and backup services are un-registered from the backup domain, and the interfaces of the backup services are de-associated from the first farm network.

Methods and apparatus for backing up data in a data center

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A system for providing a simple, easy to learn and flexible means of creating user interfaces to products under development without the need of a programming language or the need to learn a large set of complicated commands. The Visual Software Engineering ('VSE') system of the invention uses a simple concept of defining both input to and output from graphical objects in an object-oriented system by providing examples of what the user desires the graphical object to do. This technique is referred to herein as 'animation by example'. In accordance with this process, the user creates a user interface by drawing the user interface with a graphics editor and then defining the output behavior (i.e., graphics manipulation) of the user interface components by showing each state or frame as an animation. This is accomplished by changing the object using a graphic editor function such as move or rotate and storing each of the frames with the object as a behavior state. Just as with defining the output, the input is defined by giving the graphic object an example of what type of input to look for, and once it finds that input, it tells the object which frame to output or change to. Application code can then drive the animation or read the input by accessing the frame numbers assigned to each of the example frames.

Visual software engineering system and method for developing visual

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Roy L Johnson