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Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 2015

Filed:

Aug. 16, 2013
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Glenn S. Ammons, West Chester, PA (US);

Vasanth Bala, Rye, NY (US);

Canturk Isci, Secaucus, NJ (US);

Sastry S. Duri, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);

Todd W. Mummert, Danbury, CT (US);

Giovanni Pacifici, New York, NY (US);

Darrell C. Reimer, Tarrytown, NY (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/065 (2013.01); G06F 3/067 (2013.01); G06F 3/0619 (2013.01); G06F 11/1451 (2013.01); G06F 17/30088 (2013.01); G06F 2201/84 (2013.01);
Abstract

Aspects of the present invention provide a solution for creating a snapshot of a virtual server. In an embodiment, a first write storage is created in response to a snapshot request. For each write from the virtual server to primary storage that is the first write of that particular data block since the snapshot request, the data that resided in the data block previous to the write is copied from the primary storage to the first write storage.


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