Patent ID: 11960917
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 7:
8. A computer program product for live migration for virtualized storage, the computer program product comprising:
one or more computer readable storage media, and program instructions collectively stored on the one or more computer readable storage media, the stored program instructions comprising:
program instructions to instantiate, for a first server virtual machine (VM) virtualizing a logical volume in a read/write mode for a client VM, a second server VM virtualizing the logical volume in an off mode, the logical volume comprising a virtualization of a portion of physical storage;
program instructions to deactivate, at the first server VM, the logical volume, the deactivating disallowing the first server VM from performing a storage request from the client VM; and
program instructions to activate, at the second server VM, the logical volume, the activating performed by causing the second VM to virtualize the logical volume in the read/write mode, the activating allowing the second server VM to perform the storage request.