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Deploying A Virtual Machine For Disaster Recovery In A Cloud Computing Environment

  • US 20110258481A1
  • Filed: 04/14/2010
  • Published: 10/20/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/14/2010
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method of deploying a virtual machine in a cloud computing environment, the cloud computing environment comprising one or more virtual machines (‘

  • VMs’

    ), the VMs comprising modules of automated computing machinery installed upon cloud computers disposed within data centers, the cloud computing environment further comprising a cloud operating system and data center administration servers operably coupled to the VMs, the method comprising;

    deploying, by the cloud operating system in a local data center, a VM, including flagging the VM for disaster recovery;

    storing, by the cloud operating system in computer memory in a remote data center, a copy of the flagged VM; and

    configuring, by the cloud operating system, the remote data center to replace data processing operations of the flagged VM in the local data center with data processing operations of the copy in the remote data center when the flagged VM in the local data center is lost through disaster.

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