Nutanix, Inc.
AUTOMATIC APPLICATION MIGRATION ACROSS VIRTUALIZATION ENVIRONMENTS

Abstract:

Systems for migrating from an application running in a virtual machine to a containerized version of the application. A method commences by identifying a computing system comprising virtual machines (VMs) that execute applications. A user or processing entity identifies a subject application to be migrated to an application container that is run in place of the VM subject application. A processing entity analyzes the subject application to determine application profile attributes and then matches at least some of the application profile attributes to one or more candidate application containers. Based on administrative rules, a particular application container image corresponding to one of the matched candidate application containers is selected and invoked so as to run in the computing system in place of the application in the virtual machine(s). The application in VMs are quiesced before the virtual machine assets are migrated. The invoked application container image uses the migrated assets.