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Enablement and acceleration of live and near-live migration of virtual machines and their associated storage across networks

US8429651B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

Sean Donnellan · Schrobenhausen, DE
Chitra Dorai · Chappaqua, US
Anees A. Shaikh · Yorktown Heights, US
Kunwadee Sripanidkulchai · White Plains, US
Jie Zheng · Mansfield, US

Key dates

Filing date	Jan 20, 2010
Grant date	Apr 23, 2013
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jun 29, 2031

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F2009/4557
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A virtual machine is migrated between a source cloud and a destination cloud. A temporary storage is mounted to a partition management firmware of the source cloud and to a partition management firmware of the destination cloud. A first storage location migration migrates the virtual machine from the source cloud to the at least one temporary storage. A second storage location migration migrates the virtual machine from the at least one temporary storage to final destination storage of the destination cloud. The temporary storage is then unmounted from the partition management firmware of the source cloud and from the partition management firmware of the destination cloud.

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