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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2016
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Michael A. Halcrow, Bellevue, WA (US);
Brandon S. Baker, Redmond, WA (US);
Nicholas V. Finco, Bothell, WA (US);
Matthew Riley, Redmond, CA (US);
Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a distributed disk image deployment during virtual machine instance creation, and to deploying a virtual machine instances based on disk image locality. On example method includes receiving, at a first computing node, a request to create a virtual machine instance, the request identifying a disk image to be associated with the virtual machine instance; determining a set of computing nodes from which to transfer the disk image on a locality of the first computing node to each computing node in the set of computing nodes, generating a set of requests for a plurality of portions of the disk image, sending at least one request from the set of requests to each computing node in the set of computing nodes; and receiving, from at least one of the set of computing nodes, one or more portions of the disk image.