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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2023
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2020
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Benjamin J. Corrie, Woodinville, WA (US);
Mark Russell Johnson, McKinleyville, CA (US);
Adrian Drzewiecki, Cupertino, CA (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Container images are managed in a clustered container host system with a shared storage device. Hosts of the system include a virtualization software layer that supports execution of virtual machines (VMs) in the hosts, and one or more VMs have implemented therein a container engine that supports execution of containers within the respective VMs. Deploying a container in a first VM includes creating a virtual disk in the storage device, storing a container image in the virtual disk, mounting the virtual disk to the first VM, and updating a metadata cache to associate the container image to the virtual disk. Deploying the container in a second VM executed in a host different from a host in which the first VM is executed, includes checking the metadata cache to determine that the container image is stored in the virtual disk, and mounting the virtual disk to the second VM.