Abstract: A virtual computing environment comprising virtual machines may be created to clone a computing environment for testing purposes. To provide an accurate testing environment, the network configuration of the cloned computing environment may be preserved in the virtual computing environment. However, deploying the virtual computing environment on a physical network that comprises the cloned computing environment may create addressing conflicts. Accordingly, a technique for preserving network configuration data without creating addressing conflicts is provided herein. A virtual computing environment comprising an internal virtual network and external virtual network is fenced off to isolate the virtual computing environment from a physical external network. The virtual computing systems are connected to the internal virtual network for communication, using the preserved network configuration, between virtual computing environments.

Abstract: Completely recovering data stored on a hard disk or other computer-readable media of a computing system from scratch in an automated manner. Recovery information and post-restore customization data are stored on the backup medium that stores the backup of the computer-readable media of the computing system (e.g., operating system, application programs, user data, application data, etc.). The computing system is rebooted into a recovery environment where a recovery script automates the recovery of the backup. The recovery information and post-restore customization data are applied to the offline, recovered backup to ensure continuity. The computing system is rebooted into the recovered backup.

Abstract: A resource string associated with output text is identified. A regular expression pattern is generated from the resource string. The regular expression pattern is matched to the output text. A verification result based on the matching of the regular expression pattern to the output text is provided.