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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2023
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Sunil Yadav, Punjab, IN;
Shelesh Chopra, Bangalore, IN;
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A method for managing virtual machines (VMs) obtaining, by a metadata file manager, an instant access request for instant access to a backup of a VM to execute in a production host, wherein the backup is stored in a backup storage system, in response to the instant access request: obtaining a configuration selection for the instant access of the backup, obtaining backup metadata associated with the backup, generating, at the production host, a temporary virtual disk based on the configuration selection and the backup metadata, generating, in the metadata file manager, a second virtual disk comprising logical blocks, mapping VM data stored in the backup storage system to the logical blocks in the second virtual disk, configuring the VM to read from the temporary virtual disk, and servicing a write request of the temporary virtual disk using the mapping of the VM data in the second virtual disk.