An Efficient Physical Machine to Virtual Machine Conversion Method for Server Consolidation

Abstract

The invention discloses an efficient physical machine to virtual machine (P2V) conversion method oriented to server integration. The method can minimize the failure time in the P2V conversion process, including: (1) designing a local P2V conversion method, and configuring corresponding The virtual key converts a physical server into an on-premises virtual server. The local virtual server shares the underlying hardware resources of the source physical server, and avoids the time-consuming disk copy and synchronization process in the traditional P2V conversion method. (2) The disk synchronization module initializes a virtual machine image on the remote virtualization platform, and the image is synchronized with the image of the local virtual server. The disk copy is performed during the running of the local virtual machine, and the implicit disk synchronization is completed during the disk copy process. This process will not bring service failure time. (3) The migration module of the virtual machine can minimize the impact on the local virtual machine through the online migration of the virtual machine.

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technical field [0001] The invention belongs to virtualization and cloud computing in the computer field, and in particular relates to a physical machine to virtual machine conversion (Physical To Virtual Converting, P2V) method oriented to server integration. Background technique [0002] The use of virtualization and cloud computing technologies in the data center can increase the utilization rate of physical servers, reduce management and maintenance costs and save energy consumption. With the development and popularization of cloud computing technology, more and more applications run in virtual machines. However, there are still legacy applications that are deployed on physical machines and cannot take advantage of virtualization and cloud computing. How to effectively convert physical servers containing applications to virtualization platforms has become a challenging problem. [0003] The physical machine to virtual machine (P2V) conversion method can realize the int...

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[0005] In view of the defect that the service failure time is too long in the current P2V conversion process, the present invention provides an efficient P2V conversion method that can minimize the service failure time

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