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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2014
Applicant:
Netapp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventors:
Matthew Douglas Robinson, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Keith Tenzer, Munich, DE;
Assignee:
NETAPP, INC., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 (2006.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 11/1458 (2013.01); G06F 11/1456 (2013.01); G06F 2009/4557 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45562 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45575 (2013.01); G06F 2201/815 (2013.01); G06F 2201/84 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods and systems for replicating a virtual machine and its associated data containers are provided. The virtual machine is placed in an inactive state and a replication directory is generated for cloning each data container from an active directory to the replication directory. The clone of each data container references a physical location where data associated with each data container is stored; and thereafter, the virtual machine is placed in an active state after the cloning is completed.