Migration of applications from physical machines to virtual machines
View Patent ↗Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for migrating applications from a physical machine to virtualization technology, such as virtual machines. In one aspect, there is provided a computer-implemented method. The method may include receiving, from an agent, information representative of at least one of an application or an operating system at a processor. An image may be created based on the received information. The image may provide a virtual machine including an application. The created image may be provided to a storage device. A virtualization manager may access the storage device and load the created image to implement a virtual machine including the application. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described.
1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium containing instructions to configure a processor to perform a method, the method comprising:
receiving, from an agent, information representative of at least one of an application and an operating system at the processor;
creating, based on the received information, an image providing a virtual machine including the at least one of the application and the operating system;
providing the created image to a storage device accessible by a virtualization manager for implementing the created image as a virtual machine including the at least one of the application and the operating system; and
installing the created image on a spare processor, wherein a migration manager interacts with a migration agent included in the virtual machine at the spare processor to further configure the virtual machine based on a profile, wherein the migration manager instructs the migration agent to configure the created image based on the profile.
2. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1 , further comprising:
installing the agent in at least one of the operating system and the processor.
3. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein receiving further comprises:
receiving information representative of one or more of the following: an operating system name, an operating system version, an operating system patch level, a user account, a network configuration, and a hardware characteristic.
4. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1 , further comprising:
installing the created image on the spare processor before providing the created image to the storage device.
5. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 4 , further comprising:
providing application data to the spare processor.
6. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1 , further comprising:
implementing the created image as the virtual machine, the implemented created image retrieved from the storage device.
7. A computer-implemented method comprising:
receiving, from an agent, information representative of at least one of an application and an operating system at the processor;
creating, based on the received information, an image providing a virtual machine including the at least one of the application and the operating system; and
providing the created image to a storage device accessible by a virtualization manager for implementing the created image as a virtual machine including the at least one of the application and the operating system; and
installing the created image on a spare processor, wherein a migration manager interacts with a migration agent included in the virtual machine at the spare processor to further configure the virtual machine based on a profile, wherein the migration manager instructs the migration agent to configure the created image based on the profile.
8. The computer-implemented method of claim 7 , further comprising:
installing the agent in at least one of the operating system and the processor.
9. The computer-implemented method of claim 7 , wherein receiving further comprises:
receiving information representative of one or more of the following: an operating system name, an operating system version, an operating system patch level, a user account, a network configuration, and a hardware characteristic.
10. The computer-implemented method of claim 7 , further comprising:
installing the created image on the spare processor to further configure the created image before providing the created image to the storage device.
11. The computer-implemented method of claim 10 , further comprising:
providing application data to the spare processor.
12. The computer-implemented method of claim 7 , further comprising:
implementing the created image as the virtual machine, the implemented created image retrieved from the storage device.
13. A system comprising:
at least one processor; and
at least one memory,
wherein the at least one processor and the at least one memory are configured to perform a method comprising:
receiving, from an agent, information representative of at least one of an application and an operating system at the at least one processor;
creating, based on the received information, an image providing a virtual machine including the at least one of the application and the operating system; and
providing the created image to a storage device accessible by a virtualization manager for implementing the created image as a virtual machine including the at least one of the application and the operating system; and
installing the created image on the spare processor, wherein a migration manager interacts with a migration agent included in the virtual machine at the spare processor to further configure the virtual machine based on a profile, wherein the migration manager instructs the migration agent to configure the created image based on the profile.
14. The system of claim 13 , further comprising:
installing the agent in at least one of the operating system and the processor.
15. The system of claim 13 , wherein receiving further comprises:
receiving information representative of one or more of the following: an operating system name, an operating system version, an operating system patch level, a user account, a network configuration, and a hardware characteristic.
16. The system of claim 13 , further comprising:
installing the created image on the spare processor before providing the created image to the storage device.
17. The system of claim 16 , further comprising:
providing application data to the spare processor; and
implementing the created image as the virtual machine, the implemented created image retrieved from the storage device.