Controlling growth in virtual disks via utilization of previously used and free disk block space

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8930955
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13370628

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A method, an apparatus and an article of manufacture for controlling growth in virtual disk size. The method includes limiting a guest virtual machine file in a hypervisor from allocating a new disk block as allocated space, wherein a virtual disk on a virtual machine is mapped to the guest virtual machine file, and facilitating the virtual disk to reuse a previously allocated and freed disk block for the allocated space to control growth in virtual disk size.

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  • INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

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Baset, Salman A New York, US 28 426
Huang, Hai White Plains, US 126 1249
Tang, Chunqiang Ossining, US 51 1510

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