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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 06, 2017
Applicant:
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventors:
Rahav Vembuli, Bangalore, IN;
Doulat Desai, Bangalore, IN;
Pramod Chickaballapura Vasudeva Murthy, Bangalore, IN;
Bindumadhava Gururao, Bangalore, IN;
Assignee:
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/24 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/0846 (2013.01); G06F 9/505 (2013.01); G06F 9/5077 (2013.01); H04L 41/0853 (2013.01); H04L 41/0889 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45562 (2013.01);
Abstract
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to the creation of delta virtual machine (VM) images corresponding to changes in the state of a VM's virtual disk. A delta VM image includes metadata information corresponding to its virtual disk file as well as a virtual disk file of a parent VM image. The metadata information makes delta VM image uniquely identifiable such that they may be searched for and used for creating VMs.