Patent ID: 9195401
Filing Date: 2015-11-24
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of transferring a virtual machine storage, comprising: copying a virtual machine disk image of a virtual machine from a source storage to a destination storage, wherein the virtual machine disk image has a plurality of data blocks; and handling virtual machine IO requests from the virtual machine during copying the virtual machine disk image from the source storage to the destination storage, wherein copying the virtual machine disk image from the source storage to the destination storage and handling the virtual machine IO requests from the virtual machine during copying the virtual machine disk image from the source storage to the destination storage is accomplished via (a), (b), or (c), as follows: (a) copying the plurality of data blocks of the virtual machine disk image from the source storage to the destination storage; (b) copying the plurality of data blocks of the virtual machine disk image from the source storage to the destination storage, (c) copying the plurality of data blocks of the virtual machine disk image from the source storage to the destination storage;