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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 16, 2024
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2020
Applicant:
Vmware Llc, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventor:
Renaud B. Voltz, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Assignee:
VMware LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 (2018.01); G06F 9/54 (2006.01); G06F 13/42 (2006.01); G06F 9/4401 (2018.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 9/4406 (2013.01); G06F 9/45541 (2013.01); G06F 9/547 (2013.01); G06F 13/4221 (2013.01); G06F 9/5077 (2013.01); G06F 2009/4557 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45579 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45591 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45595 (2013.01); G06F 2213/0026 (2013.01);
Abstract
Some embodiments provide a method for operating a physical server in a network. The method stores multiple copies of a virtual machine (VM) image at a network-accessible storage. The method uses a first copy of the VM image as a virtual disk to execute a VM on a hypervisor of a first physical computing device. The method uses a second copy of the VM image as a virtual disk accessible via a smart network interface controller (NIC) of a second physical computing device to execute an operating system of the second physical computing device.