Netapp Assigned Patent
Storage and deployment of virtual machines in virtual server environment
By Francis Pelletier | February 18, 2015 at 2:52 pmNetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, has been assigned a patent (8,943,203) developed by Lent, Arthur F., Newton, MA, Morrissette, Peter M., Cary, NC, and Clayton-Luce, Timothy J., Raleigh, NC, for a “system and method for storage and deployment of virtual machines in a virtual server environment.”
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Described herein are systems and methods for storage and deployment of VMs in a virtual server environment. A VM deployment module executing on a server may produce VM container objects representing VMs, a VM container object comprising VM data describing a VM and vdisk configuration data. The VM deployment module may also later produce VMs on a server using the VM container objects. The VM deployment module may do so by producing a vdisk from a VM container object, the vdisk comprising the VM and vdisk configuration data. Rather than configuring the vdisk as typically done to make the vdisk useable to the server, the vdisk configuration data is used to make the vdisk useable and the VM data on the vdisk immediately accessible to the server. As such, the VM data may be immediately read to produce a VM on the server, thus providing rapid deployment of VMs.“
The patent application was filed on July 10, 2009 (12/501,348).
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