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Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2020

Filed:

Mar. 21, 2017
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

John V. Delaney, Kildalkey, IE;

Florian D. Graf, Zurich, CH;

Anthony M. Hunt, Hopewell Junction, NY (US);

Ricky L. Montagna, Briarcliff, TX (US);

Pawel J. Wieczorek, Mikolow, PL;

Clea A. Zolotow, Key West, FL (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 (2018.01); G06F 8/61 (2018.01); G06F 9/445 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 8/63 (2013.01); G06F 9/44526 (2013.01); G06F 2009/4557 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45579 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45583 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for off-board data migration. Responsive to receiving a request to migrate a virtual machine image, a memory location of the source virtual machine is identified. Using a generalized pathing interface, a range of logical blocks is accessed for both the source and destination virtual machines. The memory location of the source virtual machine is copied to a memory location of the destination virtual machine. The destination virtual machine is started, and; and the source virtual machine is stopped.


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