Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Maintaining consistency using reverse replication during live migration
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Application No.: US14752674Application Date: 2015-06-26
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Publication No.: US09672120B2Publication Date: 2017-06-06
- Inventor: Gabriel Tarasuk-Levin , Patrick William Penzias Dirks , Ilia Langouev , Curt Kolovson
- Applicant: VMware, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Assignee: VMware, Inc.
- Current Assignee: VMware, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Main IPC: G06F11/14
- IPC: G06F11/14 ; H04L29/08 ; G06F9/455 ; G06F11/16 ; G06F11/20

Abstract:
Examples maintain consistency of writes for a plurality of VMs during live migration of the plurality from a source host to a destination host. The disclosure intercepts I/O writes to a migrated VM at a destination host and mirrors the I/O writes back to the source host. This “reverse replication” ensures that the CG of the source host is up to date, and that the source host is safe to fail back to if the migration fails.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150378847A1 MAINTAINING CONSISTENCY USING REVERSE REPLICATION DURING LIVE MIGRATION Public/Granted day:2015-12-31
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