Managing virtual hard drives as blobs
US8516137B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Nov 16, 2009 |
| Grant date | Aug 20, 2013 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 29, 2031 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F15/161
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Cloud computing platforms having computer-readable media that perform methods to manage virtual hard drives as blobs are provided. The cloud computing platform includes fabric computers and blob stores. The fabric computers execute virtual machines that implement one or more applications that access virtual hard drives. The data in the virtual hard drives is accessed, via a blob interface, from blobs in the blob stores. The blob stores interface with a driver that translates some application input/output (I/O) requests destined to the virtual hard drives to blob commands when accessing data in the virtual hard drives.
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