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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2013
Filed:
May. 18, 2011
Eric Paul Forgette, Mechanicsville, VA (US);
Deepak Kenchammana-hosekote, Mountain View, CA (US);
Shravan Gaonkar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Arthur Franklin Lent, Newton, MA (US);
Eric Paul Forgette, Mechanicsville, VA (US);
Deepak Kenchammana-Hosekote, Mountain View, CA (US);
Shravan Gaonkar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Arthur Franklin Lent, Newton, MA (US);
NetApp Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for hosting a virtual machine from a snapshot. In particular, a snapshot of a virtual machine hosted on a primary computing device may be created. The virtual machine may be hosted on a secondary computing device using the snapshot, for example, when a failure of the virtual machine on the primary computing device occurs. If a virtual machine type (format) of the snapshot is not supported by the secondary computing device, then the virtual machine within the snapshot may be converted to a virtual machine type supported by the secondary computing device. In this way, the virtual machine may be operable and/or accessible on the secondary computing device despite the failure. Hosting the virtual machine on the secondary computing device provides, among other things, fault tolerance for the virtual machine and/or applications comprised therein.