Method and apparatus for IT infrastructure management in cloud environment

摘要

In the embodiment, when the management program develops a new virtual machine, the program identifies the candidate virtual machine for replacement, scores the possibility of replacement, and when it is judged that the likelihood of replacement is high, new program Relate virtual machines to candidate virtual machines. The management program also relocates the virtual machine and the storage volume used by the virtual machine to another physical server and the storage array by associating pairs of the virtual machines. The management program also takes over the management policy from the existing virtual machine to be replaced and uses this to manage a new virtual machine to replace the existing virtual machine.(FIG.