Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Virtual machine reboot information persistence into host memory
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Application No.: US15590316Application Date: 2017-05-09
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Publication No.: US10007540B2Publication Date: 2018-06-26
- Inventor: Ameya Prakash Usgaonkar , Mangesh Chitnis , Shehbaz Jaffer
- Applicant: NetApp, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
- Current Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Agency: Gilliam IP PLLC
- Main IPC: G06F9/455
- IPC: G06F9/455 ; G06F9/48 ; G06F11/14 ; G06F9/4401 ; G06F9/46

Abstract:
A host machine may host a virtual machine. Virtual machine reboot information, used to reboot the virtual machine in the event of a failure or restart of the virtual machine, may be identified (e.g., file system metadata buffers, a virtual non-volatile random access memory log, user data buffers, and/or data used to reboot the virtual machine such as to perform a reboot mounting operation and/or a reboot replay operation of a volume of data associated with the virtual machine). The virtual machine reboot information may be cached within relatively fast host memory of the host machine (e.g., instead of merely within a relatively slower hard drive or other storage device). In this way, the cached virtual machine reboot information may be quickly retrieved so that the virtual machine may be rebooted in a relatively shorter amount of time.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170242718A1 VIRTUAL MACHINE REBOOT INFORMATION PERSISTENCE INTO HOST MEMORY Public/Granted day:2017-08-24
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