公开(公告)号：US10296419B1

公开(公告)日：2019-05-21

申请号：US14670901

申请日：2015-03-27

Applicant: EMC Corporation

Inventor： Jehuda Shemer ,  Assaf Natanzon ,  Saar Cohen ,  Ron Cooper ,  Jonathan Grey

IPC: G06F11/14 ,  G06F9/455 ,  G06F9/4401 ,  G06F13/22

Abstract: In one aspect, a method includes powering down a target virtual machine (VM), removing the target VM from an inventory of virtual machine hosts after powering down the virtual VM, configuring a shadow VM by assigning an ID to the shadow VM to be the same as the target VM and by attaching a target VMDK to the shadow VM, adding the shadow VM to the inventory and powering up the shadow VM to run no more than a BIOS and to enable access of the target VMDK.