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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2016
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Nathan L. Prziborowski, Sonoma, CA (US);
Gabriel Tarasuk-Levin, San Jose, CA (US);
Arunachalam Ramanathan, San Jose, CA (US);
Prachetaa Raghavan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Benjamin Yun Liang, San Jose, CA (US);
Haripriya Rajagopal, San Jose, CA (US);
Longhao Shu, Portland, OR (US);
VMWARE, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for migrating a virtual machine (VM) includes establishing a first connection to a first cloud computing system executing a first VM, and establishing a second connection to a second cloud computing system managed by a second cloud provider, which is different form the first cloud provider. The method further includes instantiating a second VM designated as a destination VM in the second cloud computing system, and installing a migration agent on each of the first VM and the second VM. The migration agents execute a migration process of the first VM to the second VM by (1) iteratively copying guest data from the first VM to the second VM until a switchover criteria of the migration operation is met, and (2) copying a remainder of guest data from the first VM to the second VM when the switchover criteria is met.