Live application mobility from one operating system level to an updated operating system level and applying overlay files to the updated operating system

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9535729
APP PUB NO 20140331220A1
SERIAL NO

13874521

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Provided are techniques for comparing a first fileset associated with a first operating system (OS) with a second fileset associated with a second OS; determining, based upon the comparing, that the second OS is a more current version of the first OS; in response to the determining that the second OS is a more current version of the first OS, moving, in conjunction with live application mobility, a virtual machine (VM) workload partition (WPAR) on the first LPAR to a second LPAR, the moving comprising determining a set of overlays associated with the WPAR corresponding to the second OS; removing from the WPAR any overlays associated with the first OS; applying to the WPAR a set of overlays corresponding to the second OS; check pointing processes associated with the WPAR; and copying live data associated with the LPAR from the first LPAR to the second LPAR.

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  • INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Barrat, Frederic Cugnaux, FR 17 221
Briand, Christine M - 2 12
Dufour, Laurent Plaisance du Touch, FR 17 346
Filali-Adib, Khalid Austin, US 37 261
Ganesh, Perinkulam I Round Rock, US 43 532
McConaughy, J Mark Austin, US 6 14
Peckham, Stephen B Austin, US 13 63
Sheffield, David W Austin, US 16 218
Stephenson, Marc J Austin, US 11 199
Tomsic, Nathaniel S Austin, US 13 132
Yook, Sungjin Austin, US 14 177

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