Patent ID: 9678683
Date: 2017-06-13
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A system of persistent storage allocation, the system comprising: an image repository; a persistent storage; one or more processors, in communication with the image repository and the persistent storage; a system resource allocation database; an orchestrator, executing on the one or more processors, including: wherein the one or more processors: receive, from the input/output module, a first request to create an isolated guest and a persistent storage volume associated with the isolated guest, wherein the isolated guest is created according to an image file, which is associated with metadata; obtain, by the orchestrator, the image file and the metadata associated with the image file from the image repository; reserve, by the orchestrator, the persistent storage volume by updating the system resource allocation database based on the metadata; create, in the persistent storage, the persistent storage volume, wherein the persistent storage volume is created based on a reservation of the persistent storage volume in the system resource allocation database; activate, by the orchestrator, the isolated guest; and access, by the isolated guest, the persistent storage volume.