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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 02, 2010
Ezequiel Cervantes, Tucson, AZ (US);
David Joseph Gimpl, Rochester, MN (US);
Elfred Pagan, Austin, TX (US);
Sudhir Gurunandan Rao, Portland, OR (US);
Murali Krishna Somarouthu, Austin, TX (US);
Ezequiel Cervantes, Tucson, AZ (US);
David Joseph Gimpl, Rochester, MN (US);
Elfred Pagan, Austin, TX (US);
Sudhir Gurunandan Rao, Portland, OR (US);
Murali Krishna Somarouthu, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A storage manager connects containers of virtual machine (VM) images and virtual storage device data within hosts. The storage management provides a set of northbound application programming interfaces (APIs) that allow configuration of images associated with VM images and virtual storage devices provided to the operating systems and applications within virtual machine images. The northbound APIs, include methods for creating a virtual storage container that contains storage for the VM instance and also at least one virtual storage device to be provided to an operating system executed by the VM, a method for causing an attach of the virtual storage container to the host and a method for causing a deployment of the virtual storage device within the host. A set of southbound APIs are provided by the host, including at least a method that creates virtual storage devices and a method that attaches virtual storage devices to the host.