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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 19, 2008
Kiran Joshi, San Jose, CA (US);
Sirish Raghuram, San Jose, CA (US);
Bich Cau Le, San Jose, CA (US);
Gopala Suryanarayana, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Kiran Joshi, San Jose, CA (US);
Sirish Raghuram, San Jose, CA (US);
Bich Cau Le, San Jose, CA (US);
Gopala Suryanarayana, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Virtual machines are managed in centralized manner. Files that are shared by multiple virtual machines are stored in a central storage unit and a management program is executed on one or more of these files on a per file basis. The management program is executed on a file if an IO operation is issued for that file. A namespace map is used to provide a mapping of filenames used by the different virtual machines to filenames used by the central storage unit.