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Date of Patent:
Jul. 30, 2024

Filed:

Oct. 12, 2021
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Vipin Balachandran, Cupertino, CA (US);

Hemanth Kumar Pannem, Danville, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 (2018.01); G06F 9/48 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/4875 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 2009/4557 (2013.01);
Abstract

System and computer-implemented method for migrating partial tree structures of virtual disks for virtual computing instances between sites in a computer system uses a compressed trie, which is created from target tree structures of virtual disks at a plurality of target sites in the computer system. For a virtual computing instance selected, the compressed trie is used to find candidate target sites based on a disk chain string of the virtual computing instance. For each candidate target site, a cost value for migrating the virtual computing instance along with a partial source tree structure of virtual disks corresponding to the virtual computing instance from the source site to the candidate target site is calculated to select a target site with a lowest cost value as a migration option to reduce storage resource usage in the computer system.


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