Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Virtual machine fault tolerance
- Patent Title (中): 虚拟机容错
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Application No.: US14063689Application Date: 2013-10-25
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Publication No.: US09128884B2Publication Date: 2015-09-08
- Inventor: Eric Paul Forgette , Deepak Kenchammana-Hosekote , Shravan Gaonkar , Arthur Franklin Lent
- Applicant: NetApp Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
- Current Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Agency: Cooper Legal Group, LLC
- Main IPC: G06F11/00
- IPC: G06F11/00 ; G06F11/14 ; G06F11/20

Abstract:
One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for hosting a virtual machine from a snapshot. In particular, a snapshot of a virtual machine hosted on a primary computing device may be created. The virtual machine may be hosted on a secondary computing device using the snapshot, for example, when a failure of the virtual machine on the primary computing device occurs. If a virtual machine type (format) of the snapshot is not supported by the secondary computing device, then the virtual machine within the snapshot may be converted to a virtual machine type supported by the secondary computing device. In this way, the virtual machine may be operable and/or accessible on the secondary computing device despite the failure. Hosting the virtual machine on the secondary computing device provides, among other things, fault tolerance for the virtual machine and/or applications comprised therein.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140053022A1 VIRTUAL MACHINE FAULT TOLERANCE Public/Granted day:2014-02-20
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