Patent ID: 8538919
Filing Date: 2013-09-17
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A virtual computing system comprising: a virtual computing system platform comprising a processor, a storage device, and hypervisor, wherein the virtual computing system platform is configured to implement one or more guest computing systems at a first location, wherein each guest computing system is configured to perform information processing with one or more applications and incrementally forward updates to a persistently stored image of the guest computing system at a second location; a management gateway coupled to the one or more guest systems, wherein the management gateway is configured to run one or more of the guest computing systems at a second location if the one or more guest systems become unavailable at the first location, wherein the management gateway is configured to ensure that a single copy of each running guest computing system is present at the first location or the second location but not both; and one or more logical volume storage devices coupled to the processor and a memory, the storage devices retaining data on behalf of one or more virtual machines wherein: