WO2017014722A1 - Visualisation d'une configuration de ressources avec un anneau de visualisation - Google Patents

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WO2017014722A1
WO2017014722A1 PCT/US2015/040906 US2015040906W WO2017014722A1 WO 2017014722 A1 WO2017014722 A1 WO 2017014722A1 US 2015040906 W US2015040906 W US 2015040906W WO 2017014722 A1 WO2017014722 A1 WO 2017014722A1
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Peter Thomas Houck
Wendy STUDINSKI
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  • Figure 1 shows an example of a device that may generate a visualization of a resource configuration with a visualization ring.
  • Figure 2 shows an example of a visualization of a hypervisor configuration that the visualization circuitry may generate.
  • Figure 3 shows example elements of a visualization of a hypervisor configuration that the visualization circuitry may generate.
  • Figure 4 shows more example elements of a visualization of a hypervisor configuration that the visualization circuitry may generate.
  • Figure 5 shows an example of status indicators that the visualization circuitry may include in a visualization of a hypervisor configuration.
  • Figure 6A shows an example of a device highlight that the visualization circuitry may apply for a visualization of a resource configuration, such as a hypervisor configuration.
  • Figure 6B shows an example of a virtual resource highlight that the visualization circuitry may apply for a visualization of a resource configuration, such as a hypervisor configuration.
  • Figure 7A shows an example of a visualization of a hypervisor configuration with a compacted representation of a device in the hypervisor configuration.
  • Figure 7B shows an example of a visualization of a hypervisor configuration with compacted representations of devices of a particular device type.
  • Figure 8 shows an example of visualization filter that the visualization circuitry may apply to represent portions of a resource configuration correlated to a particular device.
  • Figure 9 shows an example of a visualization of a hypervisor configuration that represents a connection to an external device.
  • Figure 10 shows an example of logic that the visualization circuitry may implement.
  • Figure 11 shows another example of logic that the visualization circuitry may implement.
  • Figure 12 shows an example of a device that may generate a visualization of a resource configuration with a visualization ring.
  • DETAILED DESCRIPTION The discussion herein may provide visualization features for visualizing a resource configuration.
  • the circuitry, methods, devices, and logic below may visualize a resource configuration through a visualization ring, which may allow the visualization to provide a system-wide view of the resource configuration in a single diagram that may flexibly scale even for systems with large or complex configurations.
  • Visualization circuitry may generate and adjust the visualization of a resource configuration to support views of varying granularity of the resource configuration, from broad system views to device- specific views.
  • Figure 1 shows an example of a device 100 that may generate a visualization of a resource configuration with a visualization ring.
  • the device 100 may be any electronic device, and may thus take the form of any laptop or desktop computer, server, mobile or tablet device, and more.
  • the device 100 shown in Figure 1 includes visualization circuitry 110.
  • the device 100 may implement the visualization circuitry 110 through any combination of hardware, dedicated circuitry, sub-systems, modules, logic, executable instructions stored on a machine-readable medium, and more.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may generate a visualization of a resource configuration.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 generates the visualization of a resource configuration labeled as 112.
  • the visualization of the resource configuration 112 may include, for example, a visualization ring; outer ring portions of the visualization ring to represent devices of the resource configuration; inner ring portions of the visualization ring to indicate device types of the resource configuration; and an inner region encompassed by an inner perimeter of the visualization ring to represent port connections between devices of the resource configuration.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may generate a visualization of a resource configuration for any type of shared or managed computing resources.
  • a resource configuration may refer to a set of resources (whether virtual or physical) that are used, managed, connected, available, or otherwise correlated to a particular entity.
  • the resource configuration may include devices, interfaces, logic, processing capabilities, or other logical, physical, or virtual entities managed or used by a particular management device, network entity, or other computing logic.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may generate a visualization of a hypervisor configuration.
  • a hypervisor may refer to logic that creates, hosts, manages, or runs virtual machines.
  • a hypervisor configuration may include any combination of virtual or physical resources (e.g., devices) within a pool of resources provided by the hypervisor. Examples of such resources include hosted virtual machines, virtual switches (vswitches) through which hosted virtual machines may exchange data, virtual network interface cards (vNICs) or other virtual network interfaces instantiated by hosted virtual machines, physical network interface cards of the hypervisor (hypervisor NICs), physical uplinks (e.g., data ports or physical interfaces through which the hypervisor may link to external network devices), and the like.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may generate a visualization of a hypervisor configuration to include any combination of hypervisor configuration elements, including any device provided, managed, or used by the hypervisor.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may generate a visualization for various other types of resource configurations as well.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may generate visualization for a resource configuration accessible to a distributed virtual switch.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may generate a neighbor view or a particular hypervisor, such as network layer 2 neighbor view of adjacent resources.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may generate a visualization for hardware resources managed in a rack-scare architecture, including compute nodes, memory nodes, processors, ports, interfaces, or any other available resources. In that regard, the visualization circuitry 110 may generate a visualization of any resource configuration according to any combination of the visualization features described herein.
  • FIG. 2 shows an example of a visualization 200 of a hypervisor configuration that the visualization circuitry 110 may generate.
  • the visualization 200 shown in Figure 2 depicts a hypervisor configuration that includes the virtual machines labeled in the visualization 200 as Virtual Machine 1, 2, and 3 (along with their provisioned virtual network adapters), the virtual switches labeled as Vswitch 1 and 2 (along with virtual ports of these vswitches), uplink devices, as well as connections (e.g., communication links) between the various virtual machines, vswitches, and uplink devices.
  • connections e.g., communication links
  • FIG. 3 shows example elements of a visualization 200 of a hypervisor configuration that the visualization circuitry 110 may generate.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may generate the visualization 200 of the hypervisor configuration to include a visualization ring 310.
  • the visualization ring 310 may be any shape around or within which the visualization circuitry 110 may represent devices in a resource configuration, and the visualization ring 310 may thus take the form of any circumferential extending shape.
  • the visualization ring 310 may be bounded by an outer perimeter 311 and an inner perimeter 312, each of which may take various forms or shapes. In that regard, the outer perimeter 311 and the inner perimeter 312 may define a shape of the visualization ring 310.
  • the visualization ring 310 takes a circular form, as the visualization circuitry 110 generates the outer perimeter 311 and inner perimeter 312 as concentric circles.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may define a shape of the visualization ring 310 by generating the outer perimeter 311, the inner perimeter 312, or both, in the form of an oval, a polygon with any number of sides, a cyclic polygon, a shape with combinations of line segments and curved arcs, or in any other configurable shape or form.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may allocate ring portions within a visualization ring 310 to represent elements of a resource configuration.
  • a ring portion may refer to any section or area within the visualization ring 310.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may allocate a ring portion within the visualization ring 310 by setting visual boundaries within the visualization ring 310.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 generates the visualization ring 310 to include a middle perimeter 313 located within the visualization ring, e.g., located between the outer perimeter 311 and the inner perimeter 312. The middle perimeter 313 may extend partially or completely around the interior of the visualization ring 310.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may allocate outer ring portions and inner ring portions within the visualization ring 310.
  • the outer ring portions may include ring portions between the middle perimeter 313 and the outer perimeter 311, such as the outer ring portion 321 shown in Figure 3.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may represent devices in the hypervisor configuration (or any other resource configuration) in outer ring portions of the visualization ring 310.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may represent virtual machines and virtual switches managed by the hypervisor as outer ring portions within the visualization ring 310.
  • the inner ring portions of the visualization ring 310 may include ring portions between the middle perimeter 313 and the inner perimeter 312, such as the inner ring portion 322 shown in Figure 3.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may indicate device types of a resource configuration in the inner ring portions of the visualization ring, for example a virtual machine device type or a virtual switch device type for a visualization of hypervisor configuration.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may indicate a device type of a particular device represented in a visualization of a resource configuration.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may do so by aligning the outer ring portion representing the particular device adjacent to the inner ring portion that indicates the particular device type of the particular device.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may represent devices in the resource configuration of a particular device type (e.g., virtual machines in a hypervisor configuration) through outer ring portions in the visualization ring 310 and allocate the inner ring portion indicating the particular device type to extend and align with the outer ring portions for these devices.
  • the outer ring portions representing Virtual Machines 1, 2, and 3 align with the inner ring portion indicating the virtual machine device type (indicated as“VMs” in Figure 3).
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may allocate a ring portion within the visualization ring 310 that extends from the inner perimeter 312 to the outer perimeter 311.
  • a ring portion is shown as the ring portion 323 in Figure 3.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may generate the middle perimeter 313 to not extend completely around the visualization ring 310, as seen in Figure 3.
  • the ring portion 323 is not bounded by the middle perimeter 313, extending from inner edge to outer edge of the visualization ring 310.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 represents uplink devices in an edge-to-edge ring portion that extends, at least in part, from the inner perimeter 312 to the outer perimeter 311 (e.g., the ring portion 323).
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may provide text indicators for devices of a resource configuration.
  • the visualization 200 includes text indicators for Virtual Machines 1, 2, and 3 as well as Vswitches 1 and 2.
  • the text indicators for these devices are respectively located along the outer ring portion representing these devices.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may also provide text indicators for any number of virtual resources of the devices, such as network adapters, ports, link addresses, and the like.
  • the Virtual Machines 1, 2, and 3 each respectively include two network adapters, labeled as network adapter 1 and 2 for each of the Virtual Machines 1, 2, and 3.
  • the uplink ring portion includes text indicators for two resources, labeled as vmnic 1 and vmnic 2.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may generate a visualization of hypervisor configuration that includes a visualization ring 310.
  • Figure 4 shows more example elements of a visualization 200 of a hypervisor configuration that the visualization circuitry 110 may generate.
  • the visualization 200 shown in Figure 4 does not include the text indicators as shown in Figures 2 and 3.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 generates the visualization 20 of a hypervisor configuration to depict virtual ports of devices of the hypervisor configuration.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may represent any number of virtual ports of a particular device within an outer ring portion that represents the particular device.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 represents a virtual port of a device as a rectangle within the outer ring portion of the device, such as the virtual port labeled as 410.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may use various other shapes or indicators to represent a virtual port of a device within the outer ring portion.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may similarly represent physical ports (when applicable) for any resource or device represented in a visualization as well, e.g., as a rectangle or other shape within the outer ring portion representing the device.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may also depict port connections between various devices of the hypervisor configuration.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may depict such port connections in an inner region 410, located within and encompassed by an inner perimeter 312 of the visualization ring 310.
  • One example of a port connection is shown through the port connection 411 in Figure 4, located within an inner region 412 of the visualization 200.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may visualize the connections between various devices and virtual resources of the hypervisor configuration, and within a specific, contained space.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may support visualization of the connections between these devices in a contained space, which may reduce the complexity and visualization size in displaying the hypervisor configuration.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may simplify the depiction of port connections, allowing for more efficient viewing of linked resources in the hypervisor configuration.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may insert delineators between different devices represented in the visualization 200 as well as different device types indicated in the visualization 200.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may generate the visualization 200 of the hypervisor configuration to include a device delineator to separate two outer ring portions from one another, e.g., to delineate between two represented devices of the hypervisor configuration.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 aligns the device delineator 421 along the visualization ring 310 to separate two outer ring portions, and thus form a boundary between two outer ring portions.
  • the device delineator 421 may take the form of a line between the two outer ring portions, which may extend outside the visualization ring 310 past the outer perimeter 311 to separate text indicators for the various devices.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may generate the device delineator 421 in various forms.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may insert a device delineator as a gap in a perimeter of the visualization ring 310, such as a gap in the outer perimeter 311 to differentiate between two outer ring portions.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may insert the device delineator as a gap between the two outer ring portions, though the gap may not extend to the inner perimeter 312 of the visualization ring 310.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may use any combination of visual indicators, shapes, gaps, or other visual forms to delineate between outer ring portions and distinguish between represented devices of a resource configuration.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may delineate between device types indicated in the visualization 200.
  • One example of a device type delineator that the visualization circuitry 110 may insert is shown in Figure 4 as the device type delineator 422.
  • the device type delineator 422 may separate two of the inner ring portions indicating device types of the hypervisor configuration.
  • the device type delineator 422 may take the form of a line or boundary between the two inner ring portions.
  • the device type delineator 422 includes a gap between the two inner ring portions to distinguish between device types, though the visualization circuitry 110 may implement a device type delineator as any combination of other visual indicators, shapes, gaps, and other visual forms as well.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may generate a visualization of a hypervisor configuration to include device delineators, device type delineators, or both.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may specify a status for any device, resource, connection, or other element represented in a visualization of a resource configuration.
  • Figure 5 shows an example of status indicators that the visualization circuitry 110 may include in a visualization of a hypervisor configuration.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may color, shade, accent, or otherwise visually adjust an outer ring portion to indicate the device status.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 applies particular visual patterns to outer ring portions to indicate devices in a hypervisor configuration as having a status of device status A, B, or C.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may color the outer ring portions a particular color to indicate a status, and according to any status coloring formats (e.g., green, yellow, red, and more color shadings to indicate an operational status of the device).
  • the device status indicators may specify an operational state of the device, for example.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may include status indicators for virtual resources represented in the visualization of a hypervisor configuration.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may color or shade virtual or physical ports depicted in the visualization to indicate a status of the ports, e.g., in colors corresponding to the operational status of the virtual ports. In doing so, the varying colors or shading of outer ring portions and virtual ports may provide a system-wide status overview of various devices and resources in the hypervisor configuration.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 applies a visual pattern to the ports of the visualization to indicate the port as having resource status A or resource status B, which may indicate an operational status of the ports.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may include connection status indicators for connections represented in a resource configuration visualization. Connections represented within an inner region of a visualization may be colored, shaded, patterned, or otherwise visually adjusted to indicate the connection status of connections in the resource configuration.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 applies differing line patterns to indicate the status of port connections in the inner region of the visualization of the hypervisor configuration. Specifically, the visualization in Figure 5 depicts two connections statuses, connection status A and connection status B, though the visualization circuitry 110 may indicate any number of connection statuses for the connections represented in the visualization. As another example, the visualization circuitry 110 may indicate varying connection status indicators through different colors or sizes of represented connections.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may adjust or configure a visualization of a resource configuration in various ways to compact, emphasize, highlight, or expand representations of various elements of the resource configuration.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may adjust, filter, or adapt a visualization of a hypervisor configuration, for example, to highlight or emphasize a particular device, set of resources, and the like. Doing so may support a network administrator or other management entity in easily and flexibly viewing specific portions of the hypervisor configuration.
  • Figure 6A shows an example of a device highlight that the visualization circuitry 110 may apply for a visualization of a resource configuration, such as a hypervisor configuration.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may highlight or emphasize a particular device in the visualization of the hypervisor configuration in response to a highlight device indication.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may receive the highlight device indication in the form of a user input, such as a cursor selection, mouse-over, touch gesture, or other user input to highlight a particular device in the visualization.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may emphasize the device in the visualization of the resource configuration.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 applies the device highlight to the highlighted device 610, which is Virtual Machine 1 in the visualization of a hypervisor configuration.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may bold the text indicator of the device, apply a brighter or darker color shading to the outer ring portion of the device, or color an external area outside of the visualization ring 310 for the device.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may also emphasize any port connections of the device as well.
  • the visualization circuitry emphasizes the port connections of the highlighted device 610, as shown in the highlighted connections 611.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may highlight port connections of a highlighted device by bolding or thickening connections for the port connections of Virtual Machine 1 shown in the visualization in comparison to other visualized port connections.
  • Figure 6B shows an example of a virtual resource highlight that the visualization circuitry may apply for a visualization of a resource configuration, such as a hypervisor configuration.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may highlight a specific device resource and a port connection for the specific device resource.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 emphasizes the highlighted virtual resource 620, which is network adapter 1 of Virtual Machine 3. To do so, the visualization circuitry 110 may apply any of the highlight techniques described above.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may likewise emphasize the port connection of the highlighted virtual resource 620, which in Figure 6B is shown as the highlighted connection 621.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 identifies a highlight device indication or highlight virtual resource indication in the form of a mouse-over of a text indicator a device or virtual resource in the visualization of the hypervisor configuration.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may compact representations of any number of devices or device types in the visualization of a resource configuration.
  • Figure 7A shows an example of a visualization 700 of a hypervisor configuration with a compacted representation of a device in the hypervisor configuration.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may compact the representation of a particular device of the resource configuration, such as a particular virtual machine or virtual switch of a hypervisor configuration. In doing so, the visualization circuitry 110 may compact or reduce the size of the outer ring portion of the particular device by not including (e.g., filtering out) the ports of the particular device.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may also resize the outer ring portion without port representations, thus reducing the proportion of the visualization ring 310 used to represent the particular device.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may compact a representation of a particular device of a resource configuration to not represent a port (physical or virtual) of the particular device while continuing to represent ports of other devices in the resource configuration.
  • Figure 7A shows an example in which the visualization circuitry 110 compacts the representation of Virtual Machine 1 (e.g., as compared to the visualization 200 shown in Figure 2 with a non-compacted representation of Virtual Machine 1).
  • the visualization circuitry 110 also applies a device highlight to Virtual Machine 1.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may remove the virtual ports of Virtual Machine 1 from the outer ring portion representing Virtual Machine 1 and reduce the size of the outer ring portion as well.
  • the port connections of the device may stem from the device itself (e.g., from a location along the inner perimeter 312 of the visualization ring 310 aligned to the text indicator of the device), and not from the individual virtual ports of the particular device as may be the case in an non-compacted representation including the virtual ports.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may adjust a visualization of hypervisor configuration to compact a representation of a particular device in response to a compact device indication.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may recognize the compact device indication in any number of ways, for example through a user selection (e.g., mouse click or touch gesture) of the outer ring portion for representing the particular device.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may, in some implementations, toggle between a compacted representation of the particular device (e.g., without virtual ports) and a non-compacted representation of the particular device (e.g., with virtual ports) through selection or clicking of the outer ring portion for representing the particular device.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may include the port(s) of the particular device in the outer ring portion and adjust (e.g., increase) the size of the outer ring portion for representing the particular device.
  • Figure 7B shows an example of a visualization 710 of a hypervisor configuration with compacted representations of devices of a particular device type.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may compact the representations of the devices of the particular device type of a resource configuration similarly as described above in Figure 7A, and the visualization circuitry 110 may do so in response to receiving a compact device type indication.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 recognizes a compact device type indication through a user selection (e.g., mouse click) of the inner ring portion for indicating the particular device type.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may compact a representation of a particular device type of a resource configuration to not represent ports (physical or virtual) of devices in the resource configuration of the particular device type while continuing to represent ports of other devices in the resource configuration of a different device type.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may generate a compacted representation of the visualization of a resource configuration in which the device representations of some or all of the device types are compacted. In this way, the visualization circuitry 110 may visualize a hypervisor configuration, for example, with lessened detailed, which may allow a broader view of the hypervisor configuration on a device-to-device granularity. To visualize details of specific devices (e.g., virtual ports and status port statuses), the visualization circuitry 110 may expand the representations of selected devices into a non-compacted representations. The visualization circuitry 110 may do so in response to recognizing a expand device indicator or expand device type indicator.
  • Figure 8 shows an example of visualization filter that the visualization circuitry 110 may apply to represent portions of a resource configuration correlated to a particular device.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may generate a filtered visualization for a particular device by filtering representations of devices or resources not correlated to the particular device, while visualizing the devices or resources correlated to the particular device.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 applies the visualization filter to generate the filtered visualization 800 displaying Virtual Machine 3 of a hypervisor configuration and its correlated devices and resources.
  • the correlated devices and resources may refer to devices and resources linked to a particular device, and thus Figure 8 shows devices and resources linked to Virtual Machine 3.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may also show any number of uplink devices when applying a visualization filter.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may support a device specific view of a hypervisor configuration. Such a view may identify the links and connections active for a particular device in the hypervisor configuration, whether a virtual machine or virtual switch. Such a device specific view may allow a management entity or network administrator to identify specific connections or links for a particular device that may be inoperative or malfunctioning, allowing remedy of such issues.
  • Figure 9 shows an example of a visualization 900 of hypervisor configuration that represents a connection to an external device.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 allocates an outer ring portion 902 within the Uplink ring portion to represent a connection to an external device.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may allocate an outer ring portion to represent a connection between elements, such as a managed local element (e.g., the vmnic2) and an element external to the hypervisor.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 represents the connection between the vmnic2 and an external switch through the outer ring portion 902.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may include an external device indicator in the visualization.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 includes the external device indicator 904 through the text indicator“External Switch” and the arrow extending outside the visualization ring 310 from the outer ring portion 902 representing the connection between vminc2 and the External Switch.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may indicate a connection status through shading or coloring the outer ring portion 902.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may apply any combination of the visualization features to visualize other resource configurations as well. That is, the visualization circuitry may apply any of the visualization generation, adjustment, emphasis, highlight, compacting, and expanding features described above to flexibly visualize resource configurations for various types of computing systems, networks, and the like.
  • Figure 10 shows an example of logic 1000 that the visualization circuitry 110 may implement.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may implement the logic 1000 as hardware, executable instructions stored on a machine-readable medium, or as combinations thereof.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 performs or executes the logic 1000 as a method to generate a visualization of a resource configuration with a visualization ring.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may generate, for the visualization of a resource configuration, a visualization ring with an outer perimeter, an inner perimeter, and a middle perimeter between the inner and outer perimeters (1002).
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may also allocate an outer ring portion within the visualization between the middle perimeter and the outer perimeter for representing a device in the resource configuration (1004) and allocate an inner ring portion within the visualization ring between the middle perimeter and the inner perimeter for indicating a device type of the device in the resource configuration (1006).
  • FIG 11 shows another example of logic 1100 that the visualization circuitry 110 may implement.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may implement the logic 1100 as hardware, executable instructions stored on a machine-readable medium, or as combinations thereof. In some examples, the visualization circuitry 110 performs or executes the logic 1100 as a method to support generation of a visualization of a resource configuration with a visualization ring.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may insert any number of delineators into a visualization of a resource configuration with a visualization ring. For example, the visualization circuitry 110 may align a device delineator within the visualization ring to differentiate between the outer ring portion representing the device and another outer ring portion for representing another device of the resource configuration (1102). As another example, the visualization circuitry 110 may align a device type delineator within the visualization ring to differentiate between the inner ring portion indicating the device type of the device and another inner ring portion indicating another device type of another device in the resource configuration (1104).
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may allocate various inner ring portions to indicate the different device types of a resource configuration. Using a hypervisor configuration as an example, the visualization circuitry 110 may allocate an inner ring portion for indicating a virtual machine device type and allocate another inner ring portion within the visualization ring for indicating a virtual switch device type (1106). As yet another feature, the visualization circuitry 110 may indicate a port connection in an inner region encompassed by the inner perimeter of the visualization ring (1108). The port connection may represent a communication link between a physical or virtual port of the device and a physical or virtual port of another device in the resource configuration. The visualization circuitry 110 may also shade (e.g., color) an outer ring portion to indicate the device status of a device (1110).
  • shade e.g., color
  • Figure 12 shows an example of a device 1200 that may generate a visualization of a resource configuration with a visualization ring.
  • the device 1200 may be any computing device, and may thus include a processor 1210.
  • the processor 1210 may include a central processing unit (CPU), microprocessor, or any hardware device suitable for executing instructions stored on a machine- readable medium.
  • the device 1200 may include a machine-readable medium 1220.
  • the machine-readable medium 1220 may be any non-transitory electronic, magnetic, optical, or other physical storage device that stores executable instructions, such as the instructions 1222, 1224, 1226, and 1228 shown in Figure 12.
  • the machine-readable medium 1220 may be, for example, Random Access Memory (RAM), an Electrically-Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (EEPROM), a storage drive, an optical disk, and the like.
  • RAM Random Access Memory
  • EEPROM Electrically-Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
  • the device 1200 may execute instructions stored on the machine- readable medium 1220 through the processor 1210. Executing the instructions may cause the device 1200 to perform any combination of the visualization features described herein, including generating a visualization of a resource configuration with a visualization ring.
  • executing the instructions 1222, 1224, 1226, and 1228 may cause the processor 1210 to generate a visualization ring for a visualization of a resource configuration, the resource configuration a hypervisor configuration; allocate a first ring portion of the visualization ring to represent uplink devices of the hypervisor configuration; allocate a second ring portion to represent virtual machines of the hypervisor configuration, the second ring portion including outer ring portions to represent the virtual machines and an inner ring portion to indicate a virtual machine device type; and allocate a third ring portion to represent virtual switches of the hypervisor configuration, the third ring portion including outer ring portions to represent the virtual switches and an inner ring portion to indicate a virtual switch device type.
  • the machine-readable medium 1220 may further include instructions to represent ports of the virtual machines and virtual switches within the outer ring portions of the second and third ring portions.
  • the machine-readable medium 1220 may further include instructions to, in response to a compact device indication, compact a representation of a particular virtual machine to not represent a virtual port of the particular virtual machine while continuing to represent virtual ports of other virtual machines.
  • the machine-readable medium 1220 may further include instructions to, in response to a compact device type indication, compact representations of the virtual machines to not represent the virtual ports of the virtual machines while continuing to represent the virtual ports of the virtual switches.
  • the methods, devices, circuitry, and logic described above, including the visualization circuitry 110 may be implemented in many different ways in many different combinations of hardware, logic, circuitry, and executable instructions stored on a machine-readable medium.
  • the visualization circuitry 110 may include circuitry in a controller, a microprocessor, or an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), or may be implemented with discrete logic or components, or a combination of other types of analog or digital circuitry, combined on a single integrated circuit or distributed among multiple integrated circuits.
  • ASIC application specific integrated circuit
  • a product such as a computer program product, may include a storage medium and machine readable instructions stored on the medium, which when executed in an endpoint, computer system, or other device, cause the device to perform operations according to any of the description above, including any features of the visualization circuitry 110.
  • the processing capability of the systems, devices, and circuitry described herein, including the visualization circuitry 110 may be distributed among multiple system components, such as among multiple processors and memories, optionally including multiple distributed processing systems.
  • Parameters, databases, and other data structures may be separately stored and managed, may be incorporated into a single memory or database, may be logically and physically organized in many different ways, and may implemented in many ways, including data structures such as linked lists, hash tables, or implicit storage mechanisms.
  • Programs may be parts (e.g., subroutines) of a single program, separate programs, distributed across several memories and processors, or implemented in many different ways, such as in a library, such as a shared library (e.g., a dynamic link library (DLL)).
  • the DLL for example, may store code that performs any of the system processing described above.

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L'invention concerne, dans certains exemples, un procédé comprenant la génération d'un anneau de visualisation pour la visualisation d'une configuration d'hyperviseur. L'anneau de visualisation peut comprendre un périmètre extérieur, un périmètre intérieur et un périmètre médian entre les périmètres intérieur et extérieur. Le procédé peut également comprendre l'attribution d'une partie extérieure d'anneau au sein de la visualisation entre le périmètre médian et le périmètre extérieur pour représenter un dispositif dans la configuration d'hyperviseur et l'attribution d'une partie intérieure d'anneau au sein de l'anneau de visualisation entre le périmètre médian et le périmètre intérieur pour indiquer un type de dispositif du dispositif dans la configuration d'hyperviseur.
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