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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2016
Netapp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sunny Ratra, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sungwook Ryu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Steven Beam, Durham, NC (US);
Shweta Behere, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sreenivasa Potakamuri, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Seema Kamat, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ben de Waal, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
NETAPP, INC., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A virtual disk conversion system determines location ranges for data on a storage device that are found in files representing a virtual disk in a source format. An intermediate virtual disk data structure containing the location ranges for the data is generated, and the intermediate virtual disk data structure is used to associate data at the location ranges with a new file on the storage device that represents a virtual disk in a destination format.