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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2019
Filed:
May. 28, 2014
Applicant:
Red Hat Israel, Ltd., Raanana, IL;
Inventors:
Maor Lipchuk, Tel Aviv, IL;
Daniel Erez, Tel Aviv, IL;
Assignee:
Red Hat Israel, Ltd., Raanana, IL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 8/61 (2018.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 8/63 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45562 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems and methods for managing virtual machine templates. An example method may comprise: identifying, by a computer system, a virtual machine snapshot represented by a volume chain comprising one or more copy-on-write (COW) volumes; and creating, based on the virtual machine snapshot, a virtual machine template represented by a new COW volume, wherein the new COW volume comprises data from the COW volumes of the volume chain.