Offloading operations to a replicate virtual machine
US8296759B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 10, 2006 |
| Grant date | Oct 23, 2012 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 25, 2030 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F2209/509
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method and system for offloading a software application intended to be run on a first virtual machine onto a second virtual machine. An original virtual machine is created. A periodic and/or computing resource-intensive application is supposed to be run on the original virtual machine. However, doing so may detrimentally impact the operation of the original virtual machine by consuming valuable computing resources. A replicated virtual machine which is basically a copy of the original virtual machine is created and ported over to a different host computer system. The periodic and/or computing-intensive application is now run on the replicated virtual machine instead of the original virtual machine. This leaves the original virtual machine free to continue its normal operations unaffected.
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