VIRTUALIZING MULTIPLE NETWORKED MACHINES USING A PREDETERMINED NETWORK RECOVERY POLICY

• US 20160210199A1
• Filed: 05/20/2015
• Published: 07/21/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/16/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: StorageCraft Technology Corporation
• Original Assignee: StorageCraft Technology Corporation
• Inventors: Christensen, Thomas Frank, Derrick, Christopher Glade, McConkie, David Merrill Jr.
• Application Number:
  US14/717,133
• Publication Number:
  US 20160210199A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1415 at system level
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1417 Boot up procedures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1451 by selection of backup contents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1456 Hardware arrangements for backup
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1464 for networked environments
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1469 Backup restoration techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1484 involving virtual machines
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/45575 Starting, stopping, suspending or resuming virtual machine instances
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/45595 Network integration; Enabling network access in virtual machine instances
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/805 Real-time
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/815 Virtual
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/84 Using snapshots, i.e. a logical point-in-time copy of the data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4416 Network booting; Remote initial program loading [RIPL]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45558 Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1097 for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]

Abstract

Virtualizing multiple networked machines using a predetermined network recovery policy. In one example embodiment, a method for virtualizing multiple networked machines using a predetermined network recovery policy may include identifying multiple image backups of the multiple networked machines, determining an order for booting the multiple networked machines as multiple networked virtual machines, determining network settings for the multiple networked machines when booted as the multiple networked virtual machines, storing the order and the network settings in the predetermined network recovery policy prior to booting the multiple networked machines as the multiple networked virtual machines, booting the multiple networked machines as the multiple networked virtual machines from the multiple image backups in the order stored in the predetermined network recovery policy and with the network settings stored in the predetermined network recovery policy subsequent to the storing and in response to receiving a command to implement the predetermined network recovery policy.

Claims

1. A method for virtualizing multiple networked machines using a predetermined network recovery policy, the method comprising:

identifying multiple image backups of the multiple networked machines;

determining an order for booting the multiple networked machines as multiple networked virtual machines;

determining network settings for the multiple networked machines when booted as the multiple networked virtual machines;

prior to booting the multiple networked machines as the multiple networked virtual machines, storing the order and the network settings in the predetermined network recovery policy; and

subsequent to the storing and in response to receiving a command to implement the predetermined network recovery policy, booting the multiple networked machines as the multiple networked virtual machines from the multiple image backups in the order stored in the predetermined network recovery policy and with the network settings stored in the predetermined network recovery policy.

2. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the identifying the multiple image backups of the multiple networked machines is based on the multiple image backups of the multiple networked machines belonging to a single backup job.

3. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the network settings include static Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for the multiple networked virtual machines.

4. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the network settings include network role assignments for the multiple networked virtual machines.

5. The method as recited in claim 4, wherein the network role assignments for the multiple networked virtual machines include assigned roles of domain controller, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Server, exchange server, or some combination thereof.

6. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing one or more programs that are configured, when executed, to cause one or more processors to perform the method as recited in claim 1.