Offloading operations to a replicate virtual machine
    1.
    发明授权
    Offloading operations to a replicate virtual machine 有权
    将操作卸载到复制虚拟机

    公开(公告)号:US08296759B1

    公开(公告)日:2012-10-23

    申请号:US11545662

    申请日:2006-10-10

    IPC分类号: G06F9/455 G06F15/173

    摘要: A method and system for offloading a software application intended to be run on a first virtual machine onto a second virtual machine. An original virtual machine is created. A periodic and/or computing resource-intensive application is supposed to be run on the original virtual machine. However, doing so may detrimentally impact the operation of the original virtual machine by consuming valuable computing resources. A replicated virtual machine which is basically a copy of the original virtual machine is created and ported over to a different host computer system. The periodic and/or computing-intensive application is now run on the replicated virtual machine instead of the original virtual machine. This leaves the original virtual machine free to continue its normal operations unaffected.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于将要在第一虚拟机上运行的软件应用程序卸载到第二虚拟机上的方法和系统。 创建一个原始的虚拟机。 假定在原始虚拟机上运行周期性和/或计算资源密集型应用程序。 然而,这样做可能通过消耗有价值的计算资源而不利地影响原始虚拟机的操作。 基本上是原始虚拟机的副本的复制虚拟机被创建并移植到不同的主机系统。 周期性和/或计算密集型应用程序现在在复制的虚拟机而不是原始虚拟机上运行。 这使得原始虚拟机可以自由地继续其正常操作而不受影响。

    Method of universal file access for a heterogeneous computing environment
    4.
    发明授权
    Method of universal file access for a heterogeneous computing environment 有权
    异构计算环境的通用文件访问方法

    公开(公告)号:US08095525B2

    公开(公告)日:2012-01-10

    申请号:US12853136

    申请日:2010-08-09

    IPC分类号: G06F17/30

    摘要: An architecture and system are described that provide a unified file access service within in a managed computing environment composed of diverse networks, computing devices, and storage devices. The service provides mechanisms for remotely accessing the file systems of any managed computer or disk snapshot, independently of the computer's current state (powered on, suspended or powered off), its location within the environment, its hardware type (virtual vs. physical), its operating system type, and its file system formats. The system isolates centralized FPAs from the details of clients, proxies and storage elements by providing a service that decomposes offloaded file system access into two steps. A FPA or a requester acting on behalf of the FPA first expresses the disk set or the computer containing the file systems it wishes to access, along with requirements and preferences about the access method. The service figures out an efficient data path satisfying the FPA's needs, and then automatically configures a set of storage and computing resources to provide the data path. The service then replies with information about the resources and instructions for using them. The FPA then accesses the requested file systems using the returned information.

    摘要翻译: 描述了在由不同网络,计算设备和存储设备组成的受管计算环境内提供统一文件访问服务的架构和系统。 该服务提供了用于远程访问任何受管计算机或磁盘快照的文件系统的机制,与计算机的当前状态(启动,暂停或关闭),其在环境中的位置,其硬件类型(虚拟与物理), 其操作系统类型及其文件系统格式。 该系统通过提供将卸载的文件系统访问分解为两个步骤的服务来将集中式FPA与客户端,代理和存储元素的细节隔离开来。 代表FPA的FPA或请求者首先表示包含其希望访问的文件系统的磁盘集或计算机,以及关于访问方法的要求和偏好。 该服务计算出满足FPA需求的高效数据路径,然后自动配置一组存储和计算资源以提供数据路径。 然后,该服务将回复有关资源和使用说明的信息。 然后,FPA使用返回的信息访问所请求的文件系统。

    Method of universal file access for a heterogeneous computing environment
    5.
    发明授权
    Method of universal file access for a heterogeneous computing environment 有权
    异构计算环境的通用文件访问方法

    公开(公告)号:US07774391B1

    公开(公告)日:2010-08-10

    申请号:US11395081

    申请日:2006-03-30

    IPC分类号: G06F17/30

    摘要: An architecture and system are described that provide a unified file access service within in a managed computing environment composed of diverse networks, computing devices, and storage devices. The service provides mechanisms for remotely accessing the file systems of any managed computer or disk snapshot, independently of the computer's current state (powered on, suspended or powered off), its location within the environment, its hardware type (virtual vs. physical), its operating system type, and its file system formats. The system isolates centralized FPAs from the details of clients, proxies and storage elements by providing a service that decomposes offloaded file system access into two steps. A FPA or a requester acting on behalf of the FPA first expresses the disk set or the computer containing the file systems it wishes to access, along with requirements and preferences about the access method. The service figures out an efficient data path satisfying the FPA's needs; and then automatically configures a set of storage and computing resources to provide the data path. The service then replies with information about the resources and instructions for using them. The FPA then accesses the requested file systems using the returned information.

    摘要翻译: 描述了在由不同网络,计算设备和存储设备组成的受管计算环境内提供统一文件访问服务的架构和系统。 该服务提供了用于远程访问任何受管计算机或磁盘快照的文件系统的机制,与计算机的当前状态(启动,暂停或关闭),其在环境中的位置,其硬件类型(虚拟与物理), 其操作系统类型及其文件系统格式。 该系统通过提供将卸载的文件系统访问分解为两个步骤的服务来将集中式FPA与客户端,代理和存储元素的细节隔离开来。 代表FPA的FPA或请求者首先表示包含其希望访问的文件系统的磁盘集或计算机,以及关于访问方法的要求和偏好。 该服务确定了满足FPA需求的高效数据路径; 然后自动配置一组存储和计算资源来提供数据路径。 然后,该服务将回复有关资源和使用说明的信息。 然后,FPA使用返回的信息访问所请求的文件系统。

    Universal file access architecture for a heterogeneous computing environment
    6.
    发明授权
    Universal file access architecture for a heterogeneous computing environment 有权
    用于异构计算环境的通用文件访问架构

    公开(公告)号:US07606868B1

    公开(公告)日:2009-10-20

    申请号:US11395082

    申请日:2006-03-30

    IPC分类号: G06F15/16

    CPC分类号: G06F17/30067

    摘要: An architecture and system are described that provide a unified file access service within in a managed computing environment composed of diverse networks, computing devices, and storage devices. The service provides mechanisms for remotely accessing the file systems of any managed computer or disk snapshot, independently of the computer's current state (powered on, suspended or powered off), its location within the environment, its hardware type (virtual vs. physical), its operating system type, and its file system formats. The system isolates centralized FPAs from the details of clients, proxies and storage elements by providing a service that decomposes offloaded file system access into two steps. A FPA or a requester acting on behalf of the FPA first expresses the disk set or the computer containing the file systems it wishes to access, along with requirements and preferences about the access method. The service figures out an efficient data path satisfying the FPA's needs, and then automatically configures a set of storage and computing resources to provide the data path. The service then replies with information about the resources and instructions for using them. The FPA then accesses the requested file systems using the returned information.

    摘要翻译: 描述了在由不同网络,计算设备和存储设备组成的受管计算环境内提供统一文件访问服务的架构和系统。 该服务提供了用于远程访问任何受管计算机或磁盘快照的文件系统的机制,与计算机的当前状态(启动,暂停或关闭),其在环境中的位置,其硬件类型(虚拟与物理), 其操作系统类型及其文件系统格式。 该系统通过提供将卸载的文件系统访问分解为两个步骤的服务来将集中式FPA与客户端,代理和存储元素的细节隔离开来。 代表FPA的FPA或请求者首先表示包含其希望访问的文件系统的磁盘集或计算机,以及关于访问方法的要求和偏好。 该服务计算出满足FPA需求的高效数据路径,然后自动配置一组存储和计算资源以提供数据路径。 然后,该服务将回复有关资源和使用说明的信息。 然后,FPA使用返回的信息访问所请求的文件系统。

    Accessing virtual data storage units to offload operations from a computer system hosting a virtual machine to an offload server
    7.
    发明授权
    Accessing virtual data storage units to offload operations from a computer system hosting a virtual machine to an offload server 有权
    访问虚拟数据存储单元以将托管虚拟机的计算机系统的操作卸载到卸载服务器

    公开(公告)号:US07707185B1

    公开(公告)日:2010-04-27

    申请号:US11584395

    申请日:2006-10-19

    IPC分类号: G06F7/00 G06F17/00 G06F9/455

    摘要: A process of providing access to data associated with a virtual machine running on a host computer system to an offload server is implemented to improve the performance of the host computer system. Once the offload computer system knows how and where to access the data associated with that of the virtual machine, operations can be offloaded from the host computer system and performed by the offload server. Backup operations can be offloaded onto the server. The server can run backup software and directly access the data associated with the virtual machine, thereby freeing the hardware resources of the host computer to handle normal applications running on the virtual machine.

    摘要翻译: 为了提高主计算机系统的性能,实现向与卸载服务器提供对与主机计算机系统上运行的虚拟机相关联的数据的访问的过程。 一旦卸载计算机系统知道如何以及在何处访问与虚拟机的数据相关联的数据,则可以从主机计算机系统卸载操作并由卸载服务器执行操作。 备份操作可以卸载到服务器上。 服务器可以运行备份软件并直接访问与虚拟机相关联的数据,从而释放主机的硬件资源来处理在虚拟机上运行的正常应用程序。

    Loose synchronization of virtual disks
    9.
    发明授权
    Loose synchronization of virtual disks 有权
    虚拟磁盘的松动同步

    公开(公告)号:US08291180B2

    公开(公告)日:2012-10-16

    申请号:US12052468

    申请日:2008-03-20

    IPC分类号: G06F12/00

    CPC分类号: G06F11/1662 G06F11/2094

    摘要: Computer implemented methods, computer program products and computer systems synchronize copies of a virtual disk. A record of blocks that are modified during an access session of a copy of the virtual disk is maintained. For each partition of the virtual disk, a file system level indication of currently relevant blocks is obtained. Only those blocks that were modified during the access session and are currently relevant are copied to at least one additional copy of the virtual disk.

    摘要翻译: 计算机实现的方法,计算机程序产品和计算机系统同步虚拟磁盘的副本。 维护在虚拟磁盘副本的访问会话期间被修改的块的记录。 对于虚拟磁盘的每个分区,获得当前相关块的文件系统级指示。 只有在访问会话期间被修改并且当前相关的那些块才被复制到虚拟磁盘的至少一个附加副本。