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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 18, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2008
Osten Kit Colbert, San Francisco, CA (US);
Geoffrey Pike, Irvine, CA (US);
Osten Kit Colbert, San Francisco, CA (US);
Geoffrey Pike, Irvine, CA (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment is a method for tracking data correspondences in a computer system including a host hardware platform, virtualization software running on the host hardware platform, and a virtual machine running on the virtualization software, the method including: (a) monitoring one or more data movement operations of the computer system; and (b) storing information regarding the one or more data movement operations in a data correspondence structure, which information provides a correspondence between data before one of the one or more data movement operations and data after the one of the one or more data movement operations.