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Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2018

Filed:

Feb. 22, 2017
Applicant:

Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:

Dattathreya Sathyamurthy, Bangalore, IN;

Akhil Sadashiv Hingane, Bangalore, IN;

Amrainder Singh, Bangalore, IN;

Piyush Bharat Masrani, Bangalore, IN;

Assignee:

VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 (2018.01); G06F 9/48 (2006.01); G06F 9/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 9/461 (2013.01); G06F 9/4856 (2013.01); G06F 2009/4557 (2013.01);
Abstract

A process of obtaining, in effect, a multi-virtual-machine snapshot by taking a single-virtual-machine snapshot begins with creating, by a host hypervisor, a host virtual machine and a guest hypervisor. The guest hypervisor executes on the host virtual machine. Virtual machines to be included together in an effective multi-virtual-machine snapshot are migrated to the guest hypervisor. A single-virtual-machine snapshot is taken, by the host hypervisor, of the host virtual machine. The snapshot contains the state data for the virtual machines migrated to the guest hypervisor.


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