VMware, Inc.
TAG ASSISTED CLOUD RESOURCE IDENTIFICATION FOR ONBOARDING AND APPLICATION BLUEPRINT CONSTRUCTION

Abstract:

Tags are applied to gather information about an application that has been deployed across a plurality of resources, so that application resources can be brought under management and a blueprint for the deployed application can be constructed using information gathered from the tags. A method of identifying resources of a deployed application for management comprises applying tags to currently deployed resources of the application including virtual machines (VMs), storing tag data in association with the VMs to which the tag has been applied in an inventory data store, searching the inventory data store for VMs to which first tags have been applied, wherein the first tags each have tag value that identifies the deployed application, searching the inventory data store for second tags that have been applied to the VMs, and adding the resources identified by the first and second tags to a group of application resources to be managed.