International Business Machines Corporation

Yun Song Huang

Xin Peng Liu

Shaw-Ben Shi

Xia Tian Zhang

A method and apparatus for managing the persistent data of a pre-installed application in an elastic virtual machine instance is disclosed, the method comprising: in response to installing an application into a master virtual machine image, obtaining a persistent data point of a function component of the application, the persistent data point comprising a file directory for storing the persistent data of the function component; in response to launching an elastic virtual machine instance from the master virtual machine, creating a storage volume, attaching the storage volume to the elastic virtual machine instance, and mounting the storage volume to the file directory based on the persistent data point. Other features and aspects may be realized, depending upon the particular application.

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Yun Song Huang