Unified provisioning of physical and virtual images

Details Unified provisioning of physical and virtual images Unified provisioning of physical and virtual images

2007-06-29

2011-11-29

Tso, Laura (Department: 2116)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support

Digital data processing system initialization or configuration

C713S002000, C713S100000, C717S176000

Reexamination Certificate

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08069341

ABSTRACT:
A system for the unified provisioning of virtual and physical disk images is created. The system includes a library of disk images. Client devices are able to upload to, and select disk images from the disk library. The library is able to determine the hardware requirements of a client device, and format the disk image accordingly. The library supports both virtual machine and physical computer systems, and is able to modify the stored disk image to accommodate either type of client device. The library can modify images to be bootable from a wide variety of storage device types, including iSCSI, and DAS, for example.

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