Patent ID: 11922201
Assignee: VMWARE LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 5:
6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
receiving a request to write data to a file on the VM;
determining one of the first writeable volume or the second writeable volume that is indicated by the policy based on the file;
attempting to locate the file in the determined writeable volume;
in response to failing to locate the file in the determined writeable volume, searching for the file in a different location than the determined writeable volume, the different location comprising one of another attached writeable volume, the one or more application storage volumes, or an operating system layer;
locating the file in the different location;
writing the data copy-on-write to a copy of at least a portion of the file in the determined writeable volume.