Vmware, Inc.

Nolan Brubaker

Derek Uluski

Somenath Bandyopadhyay

Xiao Liu

Dave Smith-Uchida

Lintong Jiang

Deepak Kinni

Revathy Shunmugam

Jaswanth Gummadi

Xinyan Wu

The disclosure herein describes generating a protected entity of a VCI. A state document is generated based on the metadata state of the VCI and an entity data stream is set to a URI associated with the data of the VCI. Components and associated URIs of the VCI are identified. A combined data stream is set to a URI configured to provide access to the state document, the entity data stream, and the URIs of the components of the VCI. A snapshot API for providing a snapshot of the state of the protected entity, a serialization API for providing a serialized version of the protected entity, and a de-serialization API for converting a serialized version of the protected entity into a de-serialized version of the protected entity are defined. The protected entity is configured to enable the data and metadata of the VCI to be efficiently backed up.

Capturing and restoring persistent state of complex applications

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Goshen, IN, United States of America

Nolan Brubaker