Application-level live synchronization across computing platforms including synchronizing co-resident applications to disparate standby destinations and selectively synchronizing some applications and not others
US10387266B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Dec 5, 2016 |
| Grant date | Aug 20, 2019 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 23, 2037 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F11/328
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An illustrative “Live Synchronization” feature creates and maintains a ready standby “synchronized application” that is available to take over as a failover solution for a “primary” application that operates in a production environment, but will do so on a different computing platform (e.g., physical server, virtual machine, container, etc.), and possibly on a differed kind of computing platform than, the primary. The illustrative system has specialized features and components for discovering and singling out each primary application and identifying and locating its disk image, e.g., VMDK file. The application is Live Synched to the standby/failover application without reference to whether and how other co-resident applications might be treated. The standby/failover destination supporting the synchronized application may be located anywhere, whether in the same data center as the primary or geographically remote or in a private or public cloud setting.
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