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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2013
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Douglas M. Freimuth, New York, NY (US);
Ho Yin Starsky Wong, Ossining, NY (US);
Murtaza Zafer, White Plains, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A mechanism is provided for bandwidth-efficient virtual machine image delivery. Responsive to a request to generate a virtual machine (VM) in a node using an existing virtual machine image (VMI) file, a set of file chunks that constitute the VMI file is identified. The set of file chunks are retrieved from within a set of distributed nodes by establishing an optimized plan for retrieving the set of file chunks in a bandwidth-efficient manner. Responsive to retrieving the set of file chunks from within the distributed nodes, the set of file chunks are reassembled into the VMI file for generation of the VM.