System and method of a cloud service provider virtual machine recovery
AssigneeArista Networks, Inc.
InventorsUday Sushilendra Srinivasan, Chaitanya Lala, Prasanna Panchamukhi, Jayden Daniel Navarro, Rajagopalan Madapusi Ammanur
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Abstract
A method and apparatus of a device that recovers accessibility for an inaccessible virtual machine hosted by a cloud service provider is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the device receives an indication that a recovery disk has been attached to a virtual machine hosted by a cloud service provider, wherein the virtual machine is inaccessible to a client. In addition, the device executes an agent that recovers the accessibility of the virtual machine for the client.
Claims20
A non-transitory machine-readable medium having executable instructions to cause one or more processing units to perform a method in a cloud service provider, the method comprising:
- instantiating a virtual machine on the cloud service provider to perform a service for a client, wherein the client initially has access to the virtual machine and subsequently loses access to the virtual machine;
- detecting that the instantiated virtual machine has become inaccessible to the client;
- attaching a recovery disk to the virtual machine in response to the virtual machine becoming inaccessible to the client;
- receiving an indication that a recovery disk has been attached to the virtual machine;
- and
- executing an agent on the virtual machine to recover the accessibility of the virtual machine for the client, including performing recovery actions in a configuration file stored on the recovery disk.
A method in a cloud service provider, the method comprising:
- instantiating a virtual machine on the cloud service provider to perform a service for a client, wherein the client initially has access to the virtual machine and subsequently loses access to the virtual machine;
- detecting that the instantiated virtual machine has become inaccessible to the client;
- attaching a recovery disk to the virtual machine in response to the virtual machine becoming inaccessible to the client;
- receiving an indication that a recovery disk has been attached to the virtual machine;
- and
- executing an agent on the virtual machine to recover the accessibility of the virtual machine for the client, including performing recovery actions in a configuration file stored on the recovery disk.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.