| 摘要 |
The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for deploying disk images. Various common disk images can be examined (e.g., within a data center) to identify a set of blocks that match between multiple, related images (i.e., common blocks). Both the common blocks and different blocks can be stored in a composite disk image. When a request for a machine running a specific production disk image is made, hardware with a pre-cached composite disk image can be located. Rules can be applied to the composite disk image to transform the composite disk image into the requested production disk image. |
