- Patent Title: Redeploying a baseline virtual machine to update a child virtual machine by creating and swapping a virtual disk comprising a clone of the baseline virtual machine
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Application No.: US15242773Application Date: 2016-08-22
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Publication No.: US10360056B2Publication Date: 2019-07-23
- Inventor: George Costea , Eric Forgette
- Applicant: NetApp Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Assignee: NetApp Inc.
- Current Assignee: NetApp Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Agency: Cooper Legal Group, LLC
- Main IPC: G06F9/455
- IPC: G06F9/455 ; G06F8/65 ; G06F8/60 ; G06F15/16

Abstract:
One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for redeploying a baseline VM (BVM) to one or more child VMs (CVMs) by merely cloning virtual drives of the BVM, instead of the entirety of the parent BVM. A temporary directory is created in a datastore that has the target CVMs that are targeted for virtual drive replacement (e.g., are to be “re-baselined”). One or more replacement virtual drives (RVDs) are created in the temporary directory, where the RVDs comprise a clone of a virtual drive of the source BVM. The one or more RVDs are moved from the temporary directory to a directory of the target CVMs, replacing existing virtual drives of the target CVMs so that the target CVMs are thus re-baselined to the state of the parent BVM.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160357594A1 VIRTUAL MACHINE REDEPLOYMENT Public/Granted day:2016-12-08
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