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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 06, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2016
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Mihnea Olteanu, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Bharath Siravara, Bellevue, WA (US);
Marius Popa, Kirkland, WA (US);
Xin Yao, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Vui Chiap Lam, Palo Alto, CA (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
The current document is directed to methods and systems that efficiently distribute virtual-machine images ('VM images') among servers within large, distributed-computer-system-implemented IAAS platforms to facilitate temporally and computationally efficient instantiation of virtual machines within the servers. In implementations discussed below, VM images are stored in a distributed fashion throughout one or more distributed computing systems, using several different VM-image-distribution models, in order to balance computational-resource usage, temporal constraints, and other factors and considerations related to VM-image distribution and VM instantiation.