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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 11, 2008
Matthew Douglas Robinson, Katonah, NY (US);
Peter R. Learmonth, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael Vaughn Stewart, Hillsborough, NC (US);
Eric Paul Forgette, Mechanicsville, VA (US);
Matthew Douglas Robinson, Katonah, NY (US);
Peter R. Learmonth, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael Vaughn Stewart, Hillsborough, NC (US);
Eric Paul Forgette, Mechanicsville, VA (US);
NetApp Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
While current solutions for cloning virtual machines can involve copying and duplicating files associated to a virtual machine (VM), systems and techniques can be devised to create thin clones of a VM using the VM's associated storage system to copy and deduplicate storage for the VMs. One can create a base VM in a directory of a storage container attached to a hypervisor, and then map the storage container to a volume on a storage system. One can clone the base VM using a snapshot of respective files associated to the base VM, which can comprise creating metadata that identified a physical storage location of the files. Further, the metadata can then be copied to a desired location on the storage container, to create a VM clone. Once copied, the cloned VM can be customized and registered within the hypervisor.