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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 08, 2012
Randall R. Cook, Springville, UT (US);
Brian Hernacki, San Carlos, CA (US);
Sourabh Satish, Fremont, CA (US);
William E. Sobel, Jamul, CA (US);
Randall R. Cook, Springville, UT (US);
Brian Hernacki, San Carlos, CA (US);
Sourabh Satish, Fremont, CA (US);
William E. Sobel, Jamul, CA (US);
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method for defragmenting virtual machine prefetch data. The method may include obtaining prefetch information associated with prefetch data of a virtual machine. The method may also include defragmenting, based on the prefetch information, the prefetch data on physical storage. The prefetch information may include a starting location and length of the prefetch data on a virtual disk. The prefetch information may include a geometry specification of the virtual disk. Defragmenting on physical storage may include placing the prefetch data contiguously on physical storage, placing the prefetch data in a fast-access segment of physical storage, and/or ordering the prefetch data according to the order in which it is accessed at system or application startup.