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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2017
Filed:
May. 01, 2013
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Frederic Barrat, Cugnaux, FR;
Laurent Dufour, Plaisance du Touch, FR;
Khalid Filali-Adib, Austin, TX (US);
Perinkulam I. Ganesh, Round Rock, TX (US);
J. Mark McConaughy, Austin, TX (US);
Stephen B. Peckham, Austin, TX (US);
David W. Sheffield, Austin, TX (US);
Marc J. Stephenson, Austin, TX (US);
Nathaniel S. Tomsic, Austin, TX (US);
Sungjin Yook, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Provided are techniques for comparing a first fileset associated with a first operating system (OS) with a second fileset associated with a second OS; determining, based upon the comparing, that the second OS is a more current version of the first OS; in response to the determining that the second OS is a more current version of the first OS, moving, in conjunction with live application mobility, a virtual machine (VM) workload partition (WPAR) on the first LPAR to a second LPAR, the moving comprising determining a set of overlays associated with the WPAR corresponding to the second OS; removing from the WPAR any overlays associated with the first OS; applying to the WPAR a set of overlays corresponding to the second OS; check pointing processes associated with the WPAR; and copying live data associated with the LPAR from the first LPAR to the second LPAR.