US 11,681,663 B2
Cloned virtual machine disk replication
Rithin Kumar Shetty, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Akhil Kaushik, San Jose, CA (US); Nagender Somavarapu, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Yuedong Mu, San Jose, CA (US); and Pranab Patnaik, Cary, NC (US)
Assigned to NetApp, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by NetApp Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Nov. 1, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/516,343.
Application 17/516,343 is a continuation of application No. 16/456,775, filed on Jun. 28, 2019, granted, now 11,163,729.
Application 16/456,775 is a continuation of application No. 15/141,988, filed on Apr. 29, 2016, granted, now 10,339,111, issued on Jul. 2, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0058159 A1, Feb. 24, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 16/178 (2019.01); G06F 16/188 (2019.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01); G06F 11/20 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01); H04L 67/1095 (2022.01)
CPC G06F 16/178 (2019.01) [G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 11/1464 (2013.01); G06F 11/1484 (2013.01); G06F 11/2076 (2013.01); G06F 11/2082 (2013.01); G06F 16/188 (2019.01); H04L 67/1095 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45562 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45583 (2013.01); G06F 2201/84 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
in response to determining that a virtual machine disk clone operation targets a virtual machine hosted by a first node having synchronous replication protection with respect to a second node, splitting the virtual machine disk clone operation to create a replication virtual machine disk clone operation;
locally implementing the virtual machine disk clone operation upon first storage to create a virtual machine disk clone within a clone backup directory of the first storage, wherein a create file operation is prevented from being implemented based upon the create file operation targeting the clone backup directory; and
sending the replication virtual machine disk clone operation to the second node for implementation upon second storage.