Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Reducing service downtime during service migration
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Application No.: US15222419Application Date: 2016-07-28
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Publication No.: US10565008B2Publication Date: 2020-02-18
- Inventor: Bulent Abali , Hubertus Franke , Thai Franck Le , Erich M. Nahum
- Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.
- Agent Kevin Michael Jordan
- Main IPC: G06F13/00
- IPC: G06F13/00 ; G06F9/48 ; G06F9/54 ; G06F9/455

Abstract:
A computer-implemented method is provided for supporting virtual machine and/or container live migration. The method may include hosting a virtual machine (VM) at a first location to be migrated to a second location by sending VM data packets from the first location to the second location and detecting a predetermined event associated with the VM at the first location. The method may further include prompting, in response to detection of the predetermined event, the redirection of the VM data packets from the first location to a buffer associated with the second location and storing the VM data packets in the buffer. The method may further include detecting an end of the predetermined event associated with the first location, and redirecting, in response to the end of the predetermined event, the VM data packets stored in the buffer to the VM migrated to the second location.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180246756A1 REDUCING SERVICE DOWNTIME DURING SERVICE MIGRATION Public/Granted day:2018-08-30
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