MANAGEMENT OF OPERATING SYSTEM SOFTWARE USING READ-ONLY MULTI-ATTACH BLOCK VOLUMES

Abstract: an operating system, or operating system update, management service uses a shared read-only multi-attach volume of a block-based storage service to distribute operating systems or operating system updates to a set of virtualized computing instances. also, to store launch specific information, that is specific to a given virtualized computing instance, additional writable volumes are used, wherein a write volume is attached to each of the computing instances of the set. this eliminates the need to provide a full copy of an os volume to each of the computing instances.

Inventor(s): Amit Shah

CPC Classification: G06F3/064 ({Management of blocks})

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