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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2013
Applicant:
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventors:
Daniel Kerry Hiltgen, Los Alto, CA (US);
Suresh Sundriyal, Mountain View, CA (US);
Wit Riewrangboonya, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/4416 (2013.01);
Abstract
A technique for booting a computing device using a boot image that is downloaded from a distributed network booting system involves identifying a tracker computing device that manages a plurality of computing devices that store all or a portion of the boot image, receiving from the tracker computing device information about one or more computing devices from which to download the boot image, and downloading the boot image from the one or more computing devices.