METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INVENTORY AND/OR POLICY-BASED MANAGEMENT OF VIRTUAL MACHINES ON A COMPUTING DEVICE

摘要

Methods, apparatuses, articles, and systems for an inventory agent and/or a policy agent of a computing device are described herein. In various embodiments, the inventory agent may be adapted to determine a count of a plurality of virtual machines on the computing device and notify an inventory server of the determined count. The policy agent, in some embodiments, may be adapted to receive an instruction to instantiate or shut down a virtual machine of the plurality of virtual machines of the apparatus, and conditionally disallow the instruction if the instruction does not meet criteria specified by a policy. The computing device may have either or both of the inventory agent or policy agent, either or both of the agents residing on either or both of a management controller of the computing device or a service operating system of the computing device.