Patent ID: 9424061
Filing Date: 2016-08-23
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having a computer readable program stored therein, wherein the computer readable program, when executed on a computing device, causes the computing device to: responsive to a request to generate a virtual machine (VM) in a node using an existing virtual machine image (VMI) file, identify a set of file chunks that constitute the VMI file; retrieve the set of file chunks from within a set of distributed nodes, wherein retrieving the set of file chunks from within the set of distributed nodes comprises establishing an optimized plan for retrieving the set of file chunks in a bandwidth-efficient manner, wherein the optimized plan is established by the computer readable program further causing the computing device to: responsive to retrieving the set of file chunks from within the set of distributed nodes, reassemble the set of file chunks into the VMI file for generation of the VM.