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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 17, 2015
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Gregory T. Burk, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Lachlan T. Coote, Mountain View, CA (US);
VMWARE, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Some embodiments provide a method for managing a set of computing resources. The method imports descriptions of computing resources from several heterogeneous sources. The descriptions specify categories for the computing resources. The different sources use different types of categories for the resource descriptions. Based on the categories specified for the computing resources in the set, the method derives additional categories for at least a subset of the computing resources. The method stores each imported computing resource tagged according to its specified and derived categories, wherein the category tags are used for binding policies to the computing resources.