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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2013
Filed:
May. 19, 2008
Nadeem Ahmad Nazeer, Lehi, UT (US);
Robert Wipfel, Draper, UT (US);
Alexander Danoyan, Riverton, UT (US);
Nadeem Ahmad Nazeer, Lehi, UT (US);
Robert Wipfel, Draper, UT (US);
Alexander Danoyan, Riverton, UT (US);
Novell, Inc., Provo, UT (US);
Abstract
System and method for performing processing functions on a warehoused service image. In one embodiment, the system comprises a service image warehouse for storing at least one service image; means for modifying the at least one service image by performing at least one of a plurality of service image processing functions on a service image contemporaneously with a user's checking the at least one service image out of the service image warehouse; means for checking the modified service image back into the service image warehouse; and a plurality of compute nodes connected to the service image warehouse to which the at least one service image may be deployed. Each of the compute nodes comprises one of a physical machine and a virtual machine host.