Cross site recovery of a vm

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016357643-A1
Application number	US-201615208427-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jul 12, 2016
Priority date	Jun 28, 2013
Publication date	Dec 8, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

Restoring a virtual machine is disclosed. An indication of the virtual machine of a primary site to be restored at a remote site using a copy stored at the remote site of a backup data of the virtual machine of the primary site is received. The virtual machine is restored to the remote site using a backup application deployed at the remote site as a virtual appliance managed using a virtual environment management platform.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A system for restoring a virtual machine, comprising:
a communication interface configured to receive an indication of the virtual machine of a primary site to be restored at a remote site using a copy stored at the remote site of a backup data of the virtual machine of the primary site, wherein the backup data was generated using a virtual appliance of the primary site directly accessing data of the virtual machine of the primary site from a storage site of the primary site; and a processor coupled with the communication interface and configured to restore the virtual machine to the remote site using a backup application associated with the remote site, wherein in response to receiving a communication from a central backup application, the backup application associated with the remote site is configured to restore the virtual machine of the primary site at the remote site using the copy of the backup data of the virtual machine of the primary site that is stored at the remote site.

2 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the primary site and the remote site are associated with different geographical locations.

3 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the indication is associated with a determination that the primary site has encountered an error.

4 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the indication is associated with a determination that the remote site is to provide at least a portion of a functionality of the primary site.

5 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the indication is associated with a determination that a utilization level of a resource of the primary site is above a threshold.

6 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to create a virtual machine infrastructure of the virtual environment management platform.

7 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to install a virtual environment manager providing the virtual environment management platform.

8 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the virtual environment management platform includes VMware vCenter.

9 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to determine a hostname of the remote site based at least in part on whether the remote site is to become the primary site.

10 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to set a hostname of the remote site to be the same as a hostname of the primary site.

11 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the virtual environment management platform is used at least in part to provide an interface that can be used by a user to select that the virtual machine should be restored to the remote site.

12 . The system of claim 1 , wherein restoring the virtual machine includes reconstructing an image of the virtual machine using the copy of the backup data.

13 . The system of claim 12 , wherein restoring the virtual machine includes storing the image to a production data storage of the remote site.

14 . The system of claim 13 , wherein restoring the virtual machine includes registering the image as a new VM to the virtual environment management platform.

15 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the copy of the backup data is stored in a native format of the virtual machine.

16 . A method for restoring a virtual machine, comprising:
receiving an indication of the virtual machine of a primary site to be restored at a remote site using a copy stored at the remote site of a backup data of the virtual machine of the primary site, wherein the backup data was generated using a virtual appliance of the primary site directly accessing data of the virtual machine of the primary site from a storage site of the primary site; and restoring the virtual machine to the remote site using a backup application associated with the remote site, wherein in response to receiving a communication from a central backup application, the backup application associated with the remote site is configured to restore the virtual machine of the primary site at the remote site using the copy of the backup data of the virtual machine of the primary site that is stored at the remote site.

17 . The method of claim 16 , wherein restoring the virtual machine includes reconstructing an image of the virtual machine using the copy of the backup data.

18 . The method of claim 17 , wherein restoring the virtual machine includes storing the image to a production data storage of the remote site.

19 . The method of claim 16 , wherein the primary site and the remote site are associated with different geographical locations.

20 . A computer program product for restoring a virtual machine, the computer program product being embodied in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium and comprising computer instructions for:
receiving an indication of the virtual machine of a primary site to be restored at a remote site using a copy stored at the remote site of a backup data of the virtual machine of the primary site, wherein the backup data was generated using a virtual appliance of the primary site directly accessing data of the virtual machine of the primary site from a storage site of the primary site; and restoring the virtual machine to the remote site using a backup application associated with the remote site, wherein in response to receiving a communication from a central backup application, the backup application associated with the remote site is configured to restore the virtual machine of the primary site at the remote site using the copy of the backup data of the virtual machine of the primary site that is stored at the remote site.

Assignees

• Emc Corp

Inventors

• Bachu Kiran K
• Meier Richard
• Madhavapeddi Vijay C

Classifications

• G06F9/45558 Primary

  Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects · CPC title

• G06F2009/45562

  Creating, deleting, cloning virtual machine instances · CPC title

• G06F11/1451

  by selection of backup contents · CPC title

• G06F2009/45575

  Starting, stopping, suspending or resuming virtual machine instances · CPC title

• G06F11/1469 Primary

  Backup restoration techniques · CPC title