International Business Machines Corporation

Huang Rui

Na Fei Yang

Yi Huang

Shuang Shuang Li

Biao Cao

Xian Dong Meng

Xiao Mei Zheng

YaLian Pan

Hong Gang Liu

Shi Lin Huang

Chen Ji

In an approach a computer receives a first request from a metadata service to store metadata for a virtual machine (VM). The computer validates the metadata service. The computer stores the metadata for the VM in response to the validation being successful. The computer receives a second request from the VM for the metadata. The computer sends the metadata to the VM.

Metadata service provisioning in a cloud environment

A method, computer system, and a computer program product for storage management for deployment of a virtual machine is provided. The present invention may include receiving a request to deploy a virtual machine based on a master VM image. The present invention may also include determining a free disk space for the virtual machine. The present invention may then include determining a disk storage space storing the master VM image. The present invention may further include mapping the disk storage space and the free disk space into a single virtual storage. The present invention may include designating the single virtual storage to be a virtual storage of the virtual machine.

Storage management for deployment of virtual machine

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