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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 16, 2019
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Dave Smith-Uchida, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Somenath Bandyopadhyay, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Jaswanth Gummadi, Dublin, CA (US);
Lintong Jiang, San Jose, CA (US);
Deepak Kinni, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Revathy Shunmugam, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Xinyan Wu, Mountain View, CA (US);
Nolan Brubaker, Goshen, IN (US);
Derek Uluski, Weymouth, MA (US);
Xiao Liu, San Jose, CA (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
The disclosure herein describes generating a protected entity of a VCI. A state document is generated based on the metadata state of the VCI and an entity data stream is set to a URI associated with the data of the VCI. Components and associated URIs of the VCI are identified. A combined data stream is set to a URI configured to provide access to the state document, the entity data stream, and the URIs of the components of the VCI. A snapshot API for providing a snapshot of the state of the protected entity, a serialization API for providing a serialized version of the protected entity, and a de-serialization API for converting a serialized version of the protected entity into a de-serialized version of the protected entity are defined. The protected entity is configured to enable the data and metadata of the VCI to be efficiently backed up.