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US 10,540,196 B2Granted
Techniques to enable live migration of virtual environments
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsChris MacNamara, John J. Browne
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Abstract
Embodiments may be generally directed to techniques to receive an indication to perform a migration of a virtual environment and services from a first host system to a second host system, initiate the migration of the virtual environment and services by communicating information associated with the virtual environment and services from the first host system to a second host system, and communicate a data structure having a value to a peer system, the value set to cause the peer system to halt communication of information for the virtual environment to the first host system.
Claims20
An apparatus, comprising:
- memory;
- processing circuitry coupled with the memory, at least a portion of at least one of the memory or processing circuitry comprised in hardware;
- logic, at least partially implemented by the processing circuitry, the logic to:
- receive an indication to perform a migration of a virtual environment and services from a first host system to a second host system;
- initiate the migration of the virtual environment and services through communication of information associated with the virtual environment and services from the first host system to the second host system;
- generate a data structure having a data structure value;
- set the data structure value equal to a value to cause a peer system to halt communication with the first host system;
- halt communication of information for the virtual environment from the peer system to the first host system via sending the data structure to the peer system;
- and
- maintain a heartbeat between the first host system and the peer system during halting of the communication of information occurring during migration of the virtual environment and services.
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A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising a plurality of instructions that, when executed by processing circuitry, enable processing circuitry to:
- receive an indication to perform a migration of a virtual environment and services from a first host system to a second host system;
- initiate the migration of the virtual environment and services through communication of information from the first host system to the second host system;
- generate a data structure having a data structure value;
- set the data structure value equal to a value to cause a peer system to halt communication with the first host system;
- halt communication of information for the virtual environment from the peer system to the first host system via sending the data structure to the peer system;
- and
- maintain a heartbeat between the first host system and the peer system during halting of the communication of information occurring during migration of the virtual environment and services.
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An apparatus, comprising:
- memory;
- processing circuitry coupled with the memory, at least a portion of at least one of the memory or processing circuitry comprised in hardware;
- logic, at least partially implemented by the processing circuitry, the logic to:
- receive an indication of a migration of a virtual environment and services from a first host system to a second host system;
- in response to receiving the indication, initiate one or more processes for the virtual environment and services on the second host system;
- receive information associated with the virtual environment and services;
- halt communication of information for the virtual environment from a peer system to the first host system via sending a first data structure to the peer system;
- generate a second data structure having a data structure value;
- set the second data structure value equal to a value to cause the peer system to commence communication with the second host system;
- commence communication of information for the virtual environment from the peer system to the second host system via sending the second data structure to the peer system;
- and
- maintain a heartbeat between the first host system and the peer system during halting of the communication of information occurring during migration of the virtual environment and services.
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A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising a plurality of instructions that, when executed by processing circuitry, enable processing circuitry to:
- receive an indication of a migration of a virtual environment and services from a first host system to a second host system;
- in response to receiving the indication, initiate one or more processes for the virtual environment and services on the second host system;
- receive information associated with the virtual environment and services;
- halt communication of information for the virtual environment from a peer system to the first host system via sending a first data structure to the peer system;
- generate a second data structure having a data structure value;
- set the data structure value equal to a value to cause the peer system to commence communication with the second host system;
- commence communication of information for the virtual environment from the peer system to the second host system via sending the second data structure to the peer system;
- and
- maintain a heartbeat between the first host system and the peer system during halting of the communication of information occurring during migration of the virtual environment and services.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.