Patent ID: 8983961
Filing Date: 2015-03-17
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A high availability system in a cloud computing environment, the system comprising: a snapshot manager disposed in a mirror environment, the mirror environment comprising at least one computer server; and a plurality of virtual machines disposed in a production environment, each of the plurality of virtual machines comprising a snapshot agent configured to perform a method comprising: wherein the snapshot manager is configured to store a recovery image for each of the plurality of virtual machines and to merge the received delta image with the recovery image to update the recovery image, wherein the snapshot agent is further configured to monitor a health of the virtual machine and to notify the snapshot manager if the virtual machine experiences abnormal behavior, wherein the snapshot agent comprises a policy engine configured to control snapshot collection, and wherein the policy engine is configured to collect system and application performance information for the virtual machine and to responsively determine how frequently snapshots are taken.