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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2012
Benjamin Trevor Kolin, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Eric Marshall Rider, San Jose, CA (US);
Benjamin Trevor Kolin, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Eric Marshall Rider, San Jose, CA (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A user interface (UI) is accessible on a display to depict and control a plurality of smart racks in a data center is disclosed. The UI includes first, second and third graphical displays. The first graphical display depicts smart racks in the data center so as to mimic a physical arrangement of the smart racks. The second graphical display depicts a plurality of blade hosts in a smart rack in the plurality of smart racks, so as to mimic a physical arrangement of the plurality of blade hosts. The first and second graphical display may include visual indicators to depict error and warning conditions. The third graphical display depicts blade information about a blade host in the plurality of blade hosts. The blade information includes system information, a list of virtual machines hosted on the blade host, and a physical location of the blade host in the data center.