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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 22, 2011
Anindya Banerjee, Barrackpore, IN;
Anirban Mukherjee, West Bengal, IN;
Anindya Banerjee, Barrackpore, IN;
Anirban Mukherjee, West Bengal, IN;
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method for reclaiming storage space from virtual machine disk images may include (1) identifying a virtual machine that uses a virtual machine disk image as a virtual disk for storage, the virtual machine disk image being stored on a thin-provisioned volume within a host file system, (2) determining that a portion of the virtual machine disk image represents a portion of the virtual disk that is unused by a file system of the virtual machine, (3) based on determining that the portion of the virtual machine disk image represents the portion of the virtual disk that is unused by the file system of the virtual machine, marking the portion of the virtual machine disk image for reclamation from the thin-provisioned volume, and (4) reclaiming the marked portion of the virtual machine disk image from the thin-provisioned volume. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.