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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 10, 2016
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Steven R. Kaufer, Rochester, MN (US);
Samuel D. Matzek, Rochester, MN (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 2009/4557 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45562 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45595 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods comprise receiving a request to perform a predefined operation on at least one of a virtual machine and a workload executing on a host in a first cloud computing environment, identifying a set of credentials to access the first cloud computing environment, and initiating performance of the predefined operation on the at least one of the virtual machine and the workload, wherein the predefined operation comprises at least one of: (i) deleting, and (ii) shelving the at least one of the virtual machine and the workload.