Inventors:
Willem Robert VAN BILJON - Cape Town, ZA
Christopher Conway Pinkham - Los Gatos CA, US
Russell Andrew Cloran - Mountain View CA, US
Michael Carl Gorven - Cape Town, ZA
Alexandre Hardy - San Jose CA, US
Brynmor K.B. Divey - Cape Town, ZA
Quinton Robin Hoole - Cape Town, ZA
Girish Kalele - Sunnyvale CA, US
International Classification:
G06F 15/16
Abstract:
A cloud computing environment having a plurality of computing nodes is described. A seed device is connected to a network. From the seed device, a launching of a cloud computing management configuration is initiated. The seed device includes a repository of software. From the seed device, software is installed on one of the plurality of computing nodes to run a cloud computing management system. The software is loaded from one of the plurality of computing nodes onto each of the plurality of nodes. A computing node is selected from the plurality of computing nodes, to designate as a master node. Operations of the cloud computing management system is controlled from the master node.