US Patent Issued to VMware on Dec. 16 for "Migrating stateful workloads between container clusters with different storage backends" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,988, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Migrating stateful workloads between container clusters with different storage backends" was invented by Yifeng Xiao (Beijing), Maosheng Ren (Beijing), Yang Yu (Beijing) and Jia Zou (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for migrating a stateful workload between a source container cluster and a destination container cluster that have different storage backends are provided. In one set of embodiments, these techniques involve creating and running, at the time of the migration, transfer processes in the source and destination container clusters respect...