Deployment and Scaling of Virtual Environments

• US 20080222234A1
• Filed: 03/10/2008
• Published: 09/11/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/23/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: eXludus Technologies, Inc.
• Original Assignee: eXludus Technologies, Inc.
• Inventors: Marchand, Benoit
• Application Number:
  US12/045,165
• Publication Number:
  US 20080222234A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/201
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1877 Measures taken prior to transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• 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]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/40 for recovering from a failure of a protocol instance or entity, e.g. service redundancy protocols, protocol state redundancy or protocol service redirection management of faults, events, alarms or notifications in data switching networks H04L41/06

Abstract

Distributed data transfer and data replication permits transfers that minimize processing requirements on master transfer nodes by spreading work across the network and automatically synchronizing with virtual machine management modules to perform virtual machine provisioning or update resulting in higher scalability, more dynamism, and allowing greater fault-tolerance by distribution of functionality. Data transfers may occur persistently such that the addition of new nodes or recovering of crashed nodes before or during the data transfer phase will automatically and asynchronously proceed to complete the missed data transfer phase and perform the virtual machine provisioning or update as required.

Claims

1. A method for asynchronous virtual machine image distribution and management, comprising:

receive a virtual machine image;

transfer the virtual machine image to a plurality of computing devices via a multicast data transfer; and

booting a functionality associated with the virtual machine image at one or more of the plurality of computing devices, where booting the associated functionality occurs asynchronous and autonomous relative to the transfer of virtual machine image.