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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2016
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Jared C. Lyon, Brighton, MA (US);
Yuri A. Stotski, Saint Petersburg, RU;
Michael L. Burriss, Raleigh, NC (US);
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A method of establishing a platform-specific configuration of a virtual machine functioning as a virtual storage appliance includes, in a deployment operation, creating a virtual platform on host computer(s), the virtual platform being a collection of virtualized hardware resources having a selected configuration from among multiple possible configurations. A description of the selected configuration of the virtual platform is stored in a record accessible to the virtual machines during a later virtual-machine initialization process. The virtual machines are instantiated and their operation initiated, and the virtual machines perform the virtual-machine initialization process to (1) read the record to obtain the stored description of the selected configuration of the virtual platform and (2) use the description of the selected configuration of the virtual platform to self-configure into the platform-specific configuration for operation compatible with the virtual platform.