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Patent No.:

US 10574524 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2020

Filed:

Nov. 06, 2017

Increasing reusability of and reducing storage resources required for virtual machine images

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:

Patterson + Sheridan, LLP

Primary Examiner:

Jeffrey R Swearingen

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.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Vembuli, Rahav. (2020). Increasing reusability of and reducing storage resources required for virtual machine images (U.S. Patent No. 10574524). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/10574524

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