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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2023
Filed:
Nov. 18, 2022
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Arunachalam Ramanathan, Union City, CA (US);
Yury Baskakov, Newton, MA (US);
Anurekh Saxena, Newcastle, WA (US);
Ying Yu, Bellevue, WA (US);
Rajesh Venkatasubramanian, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael Robert Stunes, Bellevue, WA (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of preserving the contiguity of large pages of a workload during migration of the workload from a source host to a destination host includes the steps of: detecting at the destination host, receipt of a small page of zeros from the source host, wherein, at the source host, the small page is part of one of the large pages of the workload; and upon detecting the receipt of the small page of zeros, storing, at the destination host, all zeros in a small page that is part of one of the large pages of the workload.