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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2008
Osten Kit Colbert, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gregory M. Hutchins, San Francisco, CA (US);
Robert Bosch, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jairam Ranganathan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Joel Baxter, San Carlos, CA (US);
Osten Kit Colbert, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gregory M. Hutchins, San Francisco, CA (US);
Robert Bosch, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jairam Ranganathan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Joel Baxter, San Carlos, CA (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for migrating a virtual machine disk (VM disk) from first physical storage to second physical storage while the virtual machine (VM) is running, the method comprising: (a) taking a snapshot of the VM disk as represented by a first parent VM disk stored on the first physical storage, whereby a first child VM disk is created on one of the first or second physical storage; (b) copying the first parent VM disk to the second physical storage as a second parent VM disk; (c) re-parenting the first VM child disk to the second parent VM disk; and (d) consolidating the first child VM disk and the second parent VM disk.