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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2010
Mahesh Lotlikar, Sammamish, WA (US);
Sriram Sampath, Redmond, WA (US);
Ashwin Palekar, Sammamish, WA (US);
Olga B. Ivanova, Redmond, WA (US);
Dustin L. Green, Redmond, WA (US);
Ido Ben-shachar, Kirkland, WA (US);
Mahesh Lotlikar, Sammamish, WA (US);
Sriram Sampath, Redmond, WA (US);
Ashwin Palekar, Sammamish, WA (US);
Olga B. Ivanova, Redmond, WA (US);
Dustin L. Green, Redmond, WA (US);
Ido Ben-Shachar, Kirkland, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for configuring a commodity server to host virtual hard disks are disclosed herein. In an exemplary embodiment, a virtual hard disk file can be split into a plurality of differencing VHD files and one or more of the files can be downloaded to a virtualization host as it runs off the VHD files stored on the server. After the one or more VHD files are downloaded, the virtualization host can be configured to use the local copy instead of the copy on the commodity server. In addition to the foregoing, other techniques are described in the claims, the detailed description, and the figures.