公开(公告)号：US20200319978A1

公开(公告)日：2020-10-08

申请号：US16571801

申请日：2019-09-16

Applicant: VMware, Inc.

Inventor： Dave Smith-Uchida ,  Somenath Bandyopadhyay ,  Jaswanth Gummadi ,  Lintong Jiang ,  Deepak Kinni ,  Revathy Shunmugam ,  Xinyan Wu ,  Nolan Brubaker ,  Derek Uluski ,  Xiao Liu

IPC: G06F11/14 ,  G06F9/455

Abstract: The disclosure herein describes generating a protected entity of a VCI. A state document is generated based on the metadata state of the VCI and an entity data stream is set to a URI associated with the data of the VCI. Components and associated URIs of the VCI are identified. A combined data stream is set to a URI configured to provide access to the state document, the entity data stream, and the URIs of the components of the VCI. A snapshot API for providing a snapshot of the state of the protected entity, a serialization API for providing a serialized version of the protected entity, and a de-serialization API for converting a serialized version of the protected entity into a de-serialized version of the protected entity are defined. The protected entity is configured to enable the data and metadata of the VCI to be efficiently backed up.

公开(公告)号：US11341000B2

公开(公告)日：2022-05-24

申请号：US16571801

申请日：2019-09-16

Applicant: VMware, Inc.

Inventor： Dave Smith-Uchida ,  Somenath Bandyopadhyay ,  Jaswanth Gummadi ,  Lintong Jiang ,  Deepak Kinni ,  Revathy Shunmugam ,  Xinyan Wu ,  Nolan Brubaker ,  Derek Uluski ,  Xiao Liu

IPC: G06F11/14 ,  G06F9/455

Abstract: The disclosure herein describes generating a protected entity of a VCI. A state document is generated based on the metadata state of the VCI and an entity data stream is set to a URI associated with the data of the VCI. Components and associated URIs of the VCI are identified. A combined data stream is set to a URI configured to provide access to the state document, the entity data stream, and the URIs of the components of the VCI. A snapshot API for providing a snapshot of the state of the protected entity, a serialization API for providing a serialized version of the protected entity, and a de-serialization API for converting a serialized version of the protected entity into a de-serialized version of the protected entity are defined. The protected entity is configured to enable the data and metadata of the VCI to be efficiently backed up.