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Unified provisioning of physical and virtual images

A technology of physical images and images, applied in the fields of instruments, computing, electrical digital data processing, etc., can solve the problems of complex configuration and management of guidance images and methods

Active Publication Date: 2010-03-31
MICROSOFT TECH LICENSING LLC
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[0003] The configuration and management of these various boot images and methods is complex, and the choice of which method to use depends on the performance requirements of the computer system

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[0009] figure 1 is an illustration of an example general system 101 for providing disk images for use in physical and virtual machines. The system may allow creation, manipulation, management of various virtual and physical disc images, and may provide the ability to configure other systems to boot these images.

[0010] System 101 may include a single centralized server, or may include several servers working together. The desired server includes a disk storage component 105 . Disk storage component 105 stores one or more physical or virtual machine images for provisioning to one or more client devices. The disk storage component 105 may be implemented using, for example, one or more local hard drives or using iSCSI. Any system, method or technique for disk storage in the art may be used.

[0011] The system 101 can also include a system query component 106 . The system query component 106 can query the target client computer to determine hardware characteristics of the ...

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A system for the unified provisioning of virtual and physical disk images is created. The system includes a library of disk images. Client devices are able to upload to, and select disk images from the disk library. The library is able to determine the hardware requirements of a client device, and format the disk image accordingly. The library supports both virtual machine and physical computer systems, and is able to modify the stored disk image to accommodate either type of client device. The library can modify images to be bootable from a wide variety of storage device types, including iSCSI, and DAS, for example.

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Background technique [0001] Computers traditionally boot from direct attached storage (DAS). With the advent of Storage Array Networks (SANs), it is now possible to boot a physical computer from a disk in the SAN. With the advent of virtual machines, it is possible to boot multiple virtual computer systems on a single physical computer from a virtual disk image stored on a SAN or DAS. Additionally, virtual machines can be booted directly from "pass-through" disks located on SAN or DAS storage. [0002] Some iSCSI target implementations use virtual disk images as the underlying storage for SAN disks. Thus, a physical machine booting from a directly attached disk is possible. It is possible for a virtual machine to boot from a virtual disk image located on a directly attached disk. It is possible for a physical machine to boot from an iSCSI disk that is actually a virtual disk image on an iSCSI target. A virtual machine booting directly from a physical "through" disk is als...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): G06F9/445
CPCG06F9/45558G06F8/63G06F9/4416G06F9/445G06F2009/4557
Inventor R·M·弗赖斯S·谢弗
Owner MICROSOFT TECH LICENSING LLC