Invention Grant
- Patent Title: System for securing virtual machine disks on a remote shared storage subsystem
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Application No.: US12983053Application Date: 2010-12-31
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Publication No.: US08495356B2Publication Date: 2013-07-23
- Inventor: Rohith Ashok , Matthew R. Hogstrom , Ian N. Whalley
- Applicant: Rohith Ashok , Matthew R. Hogstrom , Ian N. Whalley
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & O'Keefe
- Agent Steven Greenberg, Esq.
- Main IPC: H04L29/06
- IPC: H04L29/06 ; G06F9/445 ; G06F9/455

Abstract:
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, data processing system and computer program product for secure distribution of virtualized storage. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for secure distribution of virtualized storage in a host in a cloud computing can include composing at least one virtual machine (VM) disk in a secure container and configured to deploy VM images into a cloud computing environment, encrypting the composed at least one VM disk, transmitting the encrypted VM disk to a hypervisor in the cloud computing environment receiving a request to activate a VM instance and generating a bootloader in the secure container, transmitting the bootloader to the hypervisor in the cloud computing environment and providing a key to the bootloader to unlock the at least one VM disk.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120173866A1 SYSTEM FOR SECURING VIRTUAL MACHINE DISKS ON A REMOTE SHARED STORAGE SUBSYSTEM Public/Granted day:2012-07-05
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