CONTENT LIBRARY-BASED DE-DUPLICATION FOR TRANSFERRING VMs TO A CLOUD COMPUTING SYSTEM

A computer system, comprising:

• a memory configured to store code;
• and
• a processor configured to execute the code to:
• accept a network connection at a server resource in the cloud computing system from a first client resource in a first virtualized computing system to transfer a first virtual machine;
• receive first signatures for guest files of the first virtual machine from the first client resource;
• check the first signatures against a content library in the cloud computing system to identify first duplicate files of the guest files that match first base files stored in the content library, and to identify first unique files of the guest files that are not stored in the content library;
• instruct the first client resource such that a response to the instruction will send the first unique files to the exclusion of the first duplicate files;
• and
• generate an instance of the first virtual machine in the cloud computing system having the first base files from the content library and the first unique files received from the first client resource.

A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions, which when executed in a computer system, causes the computer system to carry out a method of creating an instance of a virtual machine in a cloud computing system, comprising:

• accepting a network connection at a server resource in the cloud computing system from a first client resource in a first virtualized computing system to transfer a first virtual machine;
• receiving first signatures for guest files of the first virtual machine from the first client resource;
• checking the first signatures against a content library in the cloud computing system to identify first duplicate files of the guest files that match first base files stored in the content library, and to identify first unique files of the guest files that are not stored in the content library;
• instructing the first client resource such that a response to the instructing will send the first unique files to the exclusion of the first duplicate files;
• and
• generating an instance of the first virtual machine in the cloud computing system having the first base files from the content library and the first unique files received from the first client resource.