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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2011
Applicant:
Ayal Baron, Kiryat Ono, IL;
Inventor:
Ayal Baron, Kiryat Ono, IL;
Assignee:
Red Hat Israel, Ltd., Raanana, IL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 (2006.01); G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30238 (2013.01); G06F 17/30194 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45562 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45579 (2013.01); G06F 17/30165 (2013.01);
Abstract
A mechanism for storing virtual machines on a file system in a distributed environment is disclosed. A method of the invention includes initializing creation of a VM by a hypervisor of a host machine, allocating a logical volume from a logical volume group of a shared storage pool to the VM, and creating a file system on top of the allocated logical volume, the file system to manage all files, metadata, and snapshots associated with the VM.