Methods, systems, and computer readable mediums for selecting and configuring a computing system to support a replicated application

1. A method for selecting and configuring a computing system to support a replicated enterprise application, the method comprising:

capturing, by a site assessment server, resource availability data associated with a plurality of computing systems, wherein each of the plurality of computing systems is a single computing platform unit that resides at a separate and distinct geographical site from the other computing systems, wherein capturing the resource availability data includes receiving, by the site assessment server, the resource availability data from each of the plurality of computing systems in response to a resource availability query message sent by the site assessment server to each of the plurality of computing systems;

determining, by the site assessment server for each of the plurality of computing systems, a suitability score based on the captured resource availability data corresponding to virtual resources of the computing system and at least one external factor associated with the computing system;

selecting, by the site assessment server, one of the plurality of computing systems to host a replicated enterprise application based on the determined suitability scores; and

establishing, by the site assessment server, a logical environment on the selected computing system to support the replicated enterprise application.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the computing systems include converged infrastructure (CI) systems.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein capturing resource availability data includes monitoring the logical resource usages and configurations.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the resource availability data includes at least one member selected from a group consisting of time zone information, geographical coordinate information, quality of services information, hardware identification information, software version information, logical configuration information, and network connectivity information.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the selected computing system comprises the computing system among the plurality of computing systems that is associated with the highest suitability score.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein establishing a logical environment includes confirming that physical resources required to support the replicated enterprise application are available at the selected computing system and establishing virtual machines at the selected computing system.

7. The method of claim 6 further comprising:

deploying an operating system and the replicated enterprise application on each of the virtual machines hosted by the selected computing system.

8. A system for selecting and configuring a computing system to support a replicated enterprise application, the system comprising:

at least one processor;

memory;

an assessment module utilizing the at least one processor and the memory in a site assessment server, wherein the assessment module is configured to:

capture resource availability data associated with a plurality of computing systems, wherein each of the plurality of computing systems is a single computing platform unit that resides at a separate and distinct geographical site from the other computing systems, wherein the assessment module is configured to receive the resource availability data from each of the plurality of computing systems in response to sending a resource availability query message to each of the plurality of computing systems;

determine for each of the plurality of computing systems a suitability score based on the captured resource availability data corresponding to virtual resources of the computing system and at least one external factor associated with the computing system; and

select one of the plurality of computing systems to host a replicated enterprise application based on the determined suitability scores; and

a configuration module utilizing the at least one processor and the memory, wherein the configuration module is configured to establish a logical environment on the selected computing system to support the replicated enterprise application.

9. The system of claim 8 wherein the computing systems include converged infrastructure (CI) systems.

10. The system of claim 8 wherein the assessment module is further configured to monitor the logical resource usages and configurations.

11. The system of claim 8 wherein the resource availability data includes at least one member selected from a group consisting of time zone information, geographical coordinate information, quality of services information, hardware identification information, software version information, logical configuration information, and network connectivity information.

12. The system of claim 8 wherein the selected computing system comprises the computing system among the plurality of computing systems that is associated with the highest suitability score.

13. The system of claim 8 wherein the configuration module is further configured to confirm that physical resources required to support the replicated enterprise application are available at the selected computing system and establish virtual machines at the selected computing system.

14. The system of claim 13 wherein the configuration module is further configured to deploy an operating system and the replicated enterprise application on each of the virtual machines hosted by the selected computing system.

15. A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon executable instructions which, when executed by a processor of a computer, cause the computer to perform steps comprising:

capturing resource availability data associated with a plurality of computing systems, wherein each of the plurality of computing systems is a single computing platform unit that resides at a separate and distinct geographical site from the other computing systems, wherein capturing the resource availability data includes receiving, by the site assessment server, the resource availability data from each of the plurality of computing systems in response to a resource availability query message sent by the site assessment server to each of the plurality of computing systems;

determining for each of the plurality of computing systems a suitability score based on the captured resource availability data corresponding to virtual resources of the computing system and at least one external factor associated with the computing system;

selecting one of the plurality of computing systems to host a replicated enterprise application based on the determined suitability scores; and

establishing a logical environment on the selected computing system to support the replicated enterprise application.

16. The computer readable medium of claim 15 wherein the computing systems include converged infrastructure (CI) systems.

17. The computer readable medium of claim 15 wherein capturing resource availability data includes monitoring the logical resource usages and configurations.

18. The computer readable medium of claim 15 wherein the resource availability data includes at least one of time zone information, geographical coordinate information, quality of services information, hardware identification information, software version information, logical configuration information, and network connectivity information.

19. The computer readable medium of claim 15 wherein establishing a logical environment includes confirming that physical resources required to support the replicated enterprise application are available at the selected computing system and establishing virtual machines at the selected computing system.

20. The computer readable medium of claim 19 further comprising deploying an operating system and the replicated enterprise application on each of the virtual machines hosted by the selected computing system.