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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2022

Filed:

Feb. 25, 2020
Applicant:

Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ganesh Venkitachalam, Mountain View, CA (US);

Rohit Jain, Mountain View, CA (US);

Boris Weissman, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Daniel J. Scales, Mountain View, CA (US);

Vyacheslav Vladimirovich Malyugin, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Jeffrey W. Sheldon, Mountain View, CA (US);

Min Xu, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Assignee:

VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/16 (2006.01); G06F 11/07 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01); G06F 9/48 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/1658 (2013.01); G06F 9/45533 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 9/4881 (2013.01); G06F 11/079 (2013.01); G06F 11/0712 (2013.01); G06F 11/0766 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45579 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45591 (2013.01); G06F 2201/805 (2013.01); G06F 2201/815 (2013.01); G06F 2201/82 (2013.01);
Abstract

System and method for providing fault tolerance in virtualized computer systems use a first guest and a second guest running on virtualization software to produce outputs, which are produced when a workload is executed on the first and second guests. An output of the second guest is compared with an output of the first guest to determine if there is an output match. If there is no output match, the first guest is paused and a resynchronization of the second guest is executed to restore a checkpointed state of the first guest on the second guest. After the resynchronization of the second guest, the paused first guest is caused to resume operation.


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