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Agentless virtual disk metadata indexing

  • US 10,642,790 B1
  • Filed: 09/22/2017
  • Issued: 05/05/2020
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/22/2017
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for obtaining virtual disk metadata (VDM), comprising:

  • issuing a snapshot request comprising a virtual machine (VM) identifier;

    receiving, in response to the snapshot request, a virtual disk image (VDI) for a virtual disk associated with the VM identifier;

    parsing the VDI based on a filesystem layout for a format in which the VDI is received, wherein the filesystem layout is for a filesystem;

    obtaining, from parsing the VDI, virtual disk data (VDD) and the VDM for the virtual disk;

    generating an intermediate data object (IDO) using the VDM;

    processing the IDO by building a full path for each directory and for content within each directory for the filesystem to obtain an IDO index, wherein the IDO index comprises a data structure in which the full path is stored; and

    employing the IDO index to implement a VDM searching service.

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