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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2019
Commvault Systems, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ (US);
Henry Wallace Dornemann, Eatontown, NJ (US);
Amit Mitkar, Manalapan, NJ (US);
Sanjay Kumar, Morganville, NJ (US);
Satish Chandra Kilaru, Manalapan, NJ (US);
Sumedh Pramod Degaonkar, Surrey, CA;
Commvault Systems, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ (US);
Abstract
Illustrative systems and methods enable a virtual machine ('VM') to be powered up at any hypervisor regardless of hypervisor type, based on live-mounting VM data that was originally backed up into a hypervisor-independent format by a block-level backup operation. Afterwards, the backed up VM executes anywhere anytime without needing to find a hypervisor that is the same as or compatible with the original source VM's hypervisor. The backed up VM payload data is rendered portable to any virtualized platform. Thus, a VM can be powered up at one or more test stations, data center or cloud recovery environments, and/or backup appliances, without the prior-art limitations of finding a same/compatible hypervisor for accessing and using backed up VM data. An illustrative media agent maintains cache storage that acts as a way station for data blocks retrieved from an original backup copy, and stores data blocks written by the live-mounted VM.