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US 10,248,619 · App. 13/629,821 · Granted Apr 2, 2019

Restoring a virtual machine from a copy of a datastore

Inventor: Sunil Kumar (Karnataka, IN)
Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
G06F16/188G06F16/116G06F16/166
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 10,248,619
App. No.
13/629,821
Filed
Sep 28, 2012
Granted
Apr 2, 2019
Kind
B1
Art Unit
2157
USPC
707/639
Abstract

In one aspect, a method to restore a virtual machine comprising receiving a selection of a point-in-time copy to restore, retrieving catalog information associated with the point-in-time copy of the virtual machine to restore, mounting a datastore on a host, modifying a virtual machine configuration file path, registering modified virtual machine configuration file path with the host, determining a snapshot ID of a snapshot of the virtual machine and reverting to the snapshot of virtual machine.

Claims (60)

1. A method to restore a virtual machine comprising:

receiving a selection of a point-in-time copy of the virtual machine to restore the selection being made from a plurality of point-in-time copies of virtual machines stored, a point-in-time copy of a datastore comprising the plurality of point-in-time copies of the virtual machines;

retrieving point-in-time copy information, from catalog information, the point-in-time copy information being associated with the point-in-time copy of the virtual machine selected to restore;

enabling the point-in-time copy of the virtual machine to receive I/Os for a host where the virtual machine will be restored;

mounting the datastore on the host;

modifying a virtual machine configuration file path to point to the point-in-time copy of the datastore;

registering the modified virtual machine configuration file path with the host;

determining a snapshot ID of a snapshot of the virtual machine; and

reverting to the snapshot of virtual machine.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

configuring the datastore;

generating snapshots of virtual machines associated with the datastore;

generating the point-in-time copy of the datastore; and

cataloging information on the virtual machines to store in the catalog information.

3. The method of claim 2 , further comprising providing an interface to allow the selection of the point-in-time copy of the virtual machine to restore by a user.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein providing the interface to allow the selection of the point-in-time copy of the virtual machine to restore comprises providing the interface to allow selection of the point-in-time copy of the virtual machine to restore and to allow selection of the host where the virtual machine will be restored.

5. The method of claim 2 wherein the cataloging information on the virtual machines comprises cataloging virtual machine details comprising at least one of a name of the virtual machine, basic input/output system (BIOS) universally unique identifier (UUID), instance UUID, location UUID, power state, virtual machine snapshot information.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising restoring the virtual machine within a minute of receiving a selection of a point-in-time copy of the virtual machine to restore,

wherein the virtual machine is part of a datastore that is at least 10 Gigabytes.

7. An article comprising:

a non-transitory machine-readable medium that stores executable instructions to restore a virtual machine, the instructions causing a processor to:

receive a selection of a point-in-time copy of the virtual machine to restore the selection being made from a plurality of point-in-time copies of the virtual machines, a point-in-time copy of a datastore comprising the plurality of point-in-time copies of the virtual machines;

retrieve point-in-time copy information, from catalog information, the point-in-time copy information being associated with the point-in-time copy of the virtual machine selected to restore;

enable the point-in-time copy of the virtual machine to receive I/Os for a host where the virtual machine will be restored;

mount the datastore on the host;

modify a virtual machine configuration file path to point to the point-in-time copy of the datastore;

register the modified virtual machine configuration file path with the host;

determine a snapshot ID of a snapshot of the virtual machine; and

revert to the snapshot of virtual machine.

8. The article of claim 7 , further comprising instructions causing the processor to:

configure the datastore;

generate snapshots of virtual machines associated with the datastore;

generate the point-in-time copy of the datastore; and

catalog information on the virtual machines to store in the catalog information.

9. The article of claim 8 , further comprising instructions causing the processor to provide an interface to allow the selection of the point-in-time copy of the virtual machine to restore by a user.

10. The article of claim 9 wherein the instructions causing the processor to provide the interface to allow the selection of the point-in-time copy of the virtual machine to restore comprises instructions causing the processor to provide the interface to allow selection of the point-in-time copy of the virtual machine to restore and to allow selection of the host where the virtual machine will be restored.

11. The article of claim 8 wherein the instructions causing the processor to catalog information on the virtual machines comprises instructions causing the machine to catalog virtual machine details comprising at least one of a name of the virtual machine, basic input/output system (BIOS) universally unique identifier (UUID), instance UUID, location UUID, power state, virtual machine snapshot information.

12. The article of claim 7 , further comprising instructions causing the processor to restoring the virtual machine within a minute of receiving a selection of a point-in-time copy of the virtual machine to restore,

wherein the datastore is at least 10 Gigabytes.

13. An apparatus, comprising:

electronic hardware circuitry to restore a virtual machine, the circuitry configured to:

receive a selection of a point-in-time copy of the virtual machine to restore, the selection being made from a plurality of point-in-time copies of the virtual machines, a point-in-time copy of a datastore comprising the plurality of point-in-time copies of the virtual machines;

retrieve point-in-time copy information, from catalog information, the point-in-time copy information being associated with the point-in-time copy of the virtual machine selected to restore;

enable the point-in-time copy of the virtual machine to receive I/Os for a host where the virtual machine will be restored;

mount the datastore on the host;

modify a virtual machine configuration file path to point to the point-in-time copy of the datastore;

register the modified virtual machine configuration file path with the host;

determine a snapshot ID of a snapshot of the virtual machine; and

revert to the snapshot of virtual machine.

14. The apparatus of claim 13 wherein the circuitry comprises at least one of a processor, a memory, programmable logic devices and logic gates.

15. The apparatus of claim 13 , further comprising circuitry configured to:

configure the datastore;

generate snapshots of virtual machines associated with the datastore;

generate the point-in-time copy of the datastore; and

catalog information on the virtual machines to store in the catalog information.

16. The apparatus of claim 15 , further comprising circuitry configured to provide an interface to allow the selection of the point-in-time copy of the virtual machine to restore by a user.

17. The apparatus of claim 16 wherein the circuitry configured to provide the interface to allow the selection of the point-in-time copy of the virtual machine to restore comprises circuitry configured provide the interface to allow selection of the point-in-time copy of the virtual machine to restore and to allow selection of the host where the virtual machine will be restored.

18. The apparatus of claim 15 wherein the circuitry configured to catalog information on the virtual machines comprises circuitry configured to catalog virtual machine details comprising at least one of a name of the virtual machine, basic input/output system (BIOS) universally unique identifier (UUID), instance UUID, location UUID, power state, virtual machine snapshot information.

19. The apparatus of claim 13 , further comprising circuitry configured to restoring the virtual machine within a minute of receiving a selection of a point-in-time copy of the virtual machine to restore,

wherein the datastore is at least 10 Gigabytes.

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