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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2015
Veritas Technologies Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Soumya Tripathy, West Bengal, IN;
Aditya Deshpande, Pune, IN;
Amit Gupte, Maharashtra, IN;
Mohini Rahalkar, Maharashtra, IN;
Veritas Technologies LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method for automated delivery and identification of virtual drives may include (1) creating a drive-template archive that contains a collection of virtual-drive templates, each of which contains a unique burned-in configuration identifier, (2) receiving, a provision request to provision a virtual drive for a requesting virtual machine, (3) fulfilling the provision request by (A) creating a copy of an appropriate virtual-drive template that matches the specification of the provision request and (B) providing the copy of the appropriate virtual-drive template to the requesting virtual machine, and (4) utilizing, at the requesting virtual machine, the copy of the appropriate virtual-drive template in response to determining that the burned-in configuration identifier of the copy of the appropriate virtual-drive template corresponds to a drive configuration that fulfills the provision request. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.