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Securing live migration of a virtual machine from a secure virtualized computing environment, over an unsecured network, to a different virtualized computing environment

  • US 9,715,401 B2
  • Filed: 09/15/2008
  • Issued: 07/25/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/15/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for secure live migration of a virtual machine (VM) in a virtualized computing environment, the method comprising:

  • selecting a VM in a secure virtualized computing environment for live migration to a different virtualized computing environment coupled to the secure virtualized environment over an unsecured computer communications network and blocking data communications between the selected VM and other VMs in the secure virtualized computing environment;

    live migrating the selected VM to the different virtualized computing environment and restarting the selected VM in the different virtualized computing environment;

    establishing a secure communicative link between the different virtualized computing environment and the secure virtualized computing environment; and

    ,enabling data communications between the restarted VM and the other VMs over the secure communicative link.

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