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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2006
Greg Hutchins, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Christian Czezatke, San Francisco, CA (US);
Satyam B. Vaghani, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Mallik Mahalingam, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Shaw Chuang, Mountain View, CA (US);
Bich Le, San Jose, CA (US);
Greg Hutchins, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Christian Czezatke, San Francisco, CA (US);
Satyam B. Vaghani, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Mallik Mahalingam, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Shaw Chuang, Mountain View, CA (US);
Bich Le, San Jose, CA (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and system for acquiring a quiesceing set of information associated with a virtual machine. A virtual machine is cloned. The cloned virtual machine has an associated persistent storage device. The state of the persistent storage device is transformed into a quiesced state of the cloned virtual machine by utilizing a shut-down process. The shut-down process is executed on the cloned virtual machine to quiesce the cloned virtual machine and the quiesceing set of information of the cloned virtual machine is automatically reduced to information stored on the persistent storage device.