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Anti-malware scan management in high-availability virtualization environments

  • US 8,479,294 B1
  • Filed: 02/15/2011
  • Issued: 07/02/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/15/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method of managing scanning in a virtualization environment, the method comprising:

  • initiating scanning on a first virtual machine hosted in a first host machine that is hosting a first plurality of virtual machines, the first virtual machine being one of the first plurality of virtual machines;

    saving a scan state of the first virtual machine, the scan state indicating status of the anti-malware scanning on the first virtual machine initiated in the first host machine;

    migrating the first virtual machine and the scan state to a second host machine that is hosting a second plurality of virtual machines; and

    performing scanning on the first virtual machine in the second host machine based on information from the scan state.

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