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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2005
David A. Henseler, Maplewood, MN (US);
Jeanne C. Gilbertson, Chanhassen, MN (US);
Margaret Cahir, St. Paul, MN (US);
David A. Henseler, Maplewood, MN (US);
Jeanne C. Gilbertson, Chanhassen, MN (US);
Margaret Cahir, St. Paul, MN (US);
CA, Inc., Islandia, NY (US);
Abstract
In general, the invention is directed to updating images running on computing nodes within a distributed computing system. For example, a distributed computing system comprises a plurality of application nodes, a software image repository and a control node interconnected via a network. The image repository stores a master software image and a plurality of software image instances generated from the master software image. The control node automatically updates each of the software image instances using an updated version of the master software image.