METHOD AND SYSTEM THAT EXTENDS A PRIVATE DATA CENTER TO ENCOMPASS INFRASTRUCTURE ALLOCATED FROM A REMOTE CLOUD-COMPUTING FACILITY

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METHOD AND SYSTEM THAT EXTENDS A PRIVATE DATA CENTER TO ENCOMPASS INFRASTRUCTURE ALLOCATED FROM A REMOTE CLOUD-COMPUTING FACILITY ABSTRACT The current document is directed to methods and systems that extend cloud-management-facility management from a private data center to infrastructure provided by a remote cloud-computing facility. A remote cloud-management-facility agent is installed within the remote cloud-computing facility to mediate exchange of control and information messages between the cloud-management facility within the private data center and virtual machines executing within the remote cloud-computing facility. The cloud-management-facility agent is connected to the cloud-management facility through a secure tunnel or connection. The cloud-management facility running within the private data center is augmented to include load-discovery functionality and virtual-machine-movement functionality, controlled by policies and parameters specified through an administration-and-management interface to automatically move executing virtual machines back and forth between the private data center and remote cloud-computing facility according to policy-specified goals, considerations, and constraints. [Figure 10] 52