CN102323943A - Virtual-machine-based data storage method and system - Google Patents
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The invention provides a virtual-machine-based data storage method and system. The method comprises the following steps of: establishing an operating system mirror image file and a storage disk file; formatting the operating system mirror image file into a system installation file system, and formatting the storage disk file into a data storage file system; installing a virtual machine operating system on the system installation file system, and associating the storage disk file and the virtual machine operating system to establish a virtual machine corresponding to the virtual machine operating system and a loading channel of the storage disk file; and storing data into the data storage file system through the virtual machine operating system and the corresponding loading channel. According to the invention, by separating the virtual machine operating system from data storage, the safety and transportability of the data and the convenience for data management are increased.
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Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of data storage, in particular to a data storage method and system based on a virtual machine.
Background
The continuous development of informatization enables the information data volume of each enterprise and unit to rapidly increase. The growth in the amount of data has made management and maintenance of data increasingly important.
Currently, there are two main ways for data storage for users: one is based on the storage of the virtual machine, namely establish a mirror image file, and format the mirror image file into a file system, the file system can be divided into several partitions, the operating system of the virtual machine is installed on appointed partition, and operating system and data storage of the virtual machine are in the same mirror image file; the other is online storage, namely space of the online storage of the user is provided in a directory space division mode.
The problems existing in the prior art are as follows:
1. since online storage is not combined with a virtual machine, only data can be stored but not edited, which is poor in convenience.
2. For storage based on a virtual machine, because data and a virtual machine operating system are stored in the same image file, once the virtual machine operating system crashes, data of a user is lost, data security is poor, and the user needs to access the data through the virtual machine, so that convenience is poor.
Disclosure of Invention
The object of the present invention is to solve at least one of the above technical drawbacks.
In order to achieve the above object, in one aspect, the present invention provides a data storage method based on a virtual machine, including the following steps: s1: creating an operating system mirror image file and a storage disk file; s2: formatting the operating system image file into a system installation file system, and formatting the storage disk file into a data storage file system; s3: installing a virtual machine operating system on the system installation file system, and associating the storage disk file with the virtual machine operating system to establish a loading channel of a virtual machine corresponding to the virtual machine operating system and the storage disk file; and S4: and storing data into the data storage file system through the virtual machine operating system and the corresponding loading channel.
According to the data storage method based on the virtual machine, the virtual machine operating system and the data storage are separated, so that data cannot be lost due to the crash of the virtual machine operating system, and the safety of the data is guaranteed.
In another aspect of the present invention, a data storage system based on a virtual machine is further provided, including: a data storage file system for storing data; and the system installation file system is associated with the data storage file system and is provided with a virtual machine operating system, and the data is stored in the data storage file system through the virtual machine operating system.
According to the data storage system based on the virtual machine, the two file systems are used for respectively storing the virtual machine operating system and the user data, and the data and the operating system are separated, so that the data cannot be lost due to the crash of the virtual machine operating system, and the safety of the data is ensured.
Additional aspects and advantages of the invention will be set forth in part in the description which follows and, in part, will be obvious from the description, or may be learned by practice of the invention.
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FIG. 1 is a flow chart of a method for virtual machine based data storage according to an embodiment of the invention;
FIG. 2 is a flow chart of a method for virtual machine based data storage according to another embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of accessing data in a data storage file system, according to one embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of a virtual machine based data storage system in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention; and
FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of a virtual machine based data storage system according to another embodiment of the present invention.
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Reference will now be made in detail to embodiments of the present invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like or similar reference numerals refer to the same or similar elements or elements having the same or similar function throughout. The embodiments described below with reference to the drawings are illustrative only and should not be construed as limiting the invention.
Fig. 1 is a flowchart of a virtual machine-based data storage method according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in fig. 1, the virtual machine based data storage method according to the embodiment of the present invention includes the following steps:
step S101, creating an operating system image file and a storage disk file.
Step S102, the image file of the operating system is formatted into a system installation file system, and the storage disk file is formatted into a data storage file system.
Step S103, installing a virtual machine operating system on the system installation file system, and associating the storage disk file with the virtual machine operating system to establish a loading channel of a virtual machine and the storage disk file corresponding to the virtual machine operating system.
And step S104, storing the data into a data storage file system through the virtual machine operating system and the corresponding loading channel.
According to the data storage method based on the virtual machine, the virtual machine operating system and the data storage are separated, so that data cannot be lost due to the crash of the virtual machine operating system, and the safety of the data is guaranteed.
The following describes the data storage method based on virtual machine in detail with reference to fig. 2.
Fig. 2 is a flowchart of a virtual machine-based data storage method according to another embodiment of the present invention. As shown in fig. 2, the method comprises the steps of:
step S201, an operating system image file and a storage disk file are created.
Step S202, the image file of the operating system is formatted into a system installation file system, and the storage disk file is formatted into a data storage file system.
Step S203, installing the virtual machine operating system on the system installation file system.
Step S204, acquiring the virtual machine identification associated with the storage disk file.
For example, a virtual machine identification associated with storing a disk file may be obtained through a virtual machine storage management function.
Step S205, a loading channel between the virtual machine corresponding to the virtual machine identifier and the storage disk file is established.
For example, a loading channel between the virtual machine corresponding to the virtual machine identifier and the storage disk file may be established through a virtual disk technology.
Step S206, storing the data into a data storage file system through the virtual machine operating system and the corresponding loading channel.
Specifically, after the virtual machine is started, the data storage space can be checked in the disk management of the operating system by entering the system desktop, so that the data is stored.
It should be understood that after the data of the user is stored in the data storage file system, the data stored in the data storage file system may be edited by other virtual machines, or by a web browser.
Specifically, fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of accessing data in a data storage file system according to an embodiment of the present invention, and as shown in fig. 3, when a user replaces a virtual machine B, the use of data in an original storage disk can be implemented by the following method: firstly, closing a loading channel 1 between a virtual machine A and a storage disk file; then, establishing a loading channel 2 between the storage disk file and the virtual machine B through a virtual disk technology; and then, restarting the virtual machine B, and editing the data stored in the data storage file system through the operating system of the virtual machine B and the corresponding loading channel 2.
As shown in fig. 3, the user may also view and edit data stored in the data storage file system directly through the web browser without through the virtual machine.
Specifically, the load channel between the virtual machine and the storage disk file is first closed. Then, a link channel 3 of a web service is established through the web storage server, and the storage disk file is associated with the link channel 3. Then, the file in the data storage file system can be directly accessed through the web browser, so that the uploading and downloading of the file are realized, including the file uploading after the file is edited.
According to the data storage method based on the virtual machine, the virtual machine operating system and the data storage are separated, so that data cannot be lost due to the crash of the virtual machine operating system, and the safety of the data is guaranteed. In addition, the storage disk file is not bound with the operating system, so that the data can be edited across the operating systems, the data has portability, and the data can be operated through a web browser, so that the convenience of data management is improved.
The invention further provides a data storage system based on the virtual machine.
FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of a virtual machine based data storage system, according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 4, the system includes a data storage file system 100 and a system mount file system 200.
Wherein the data storage file system 100 is used to store data. System mount file system 200 is associated with data storage file system 100 and system mount file system 200 has a virtual machine operating system mounted thereon through which data is stored in data storage file system 100.
According to the data storage system based on the virtual machine, the two file systems are used for respectively storing the virtual machine operating system and the user data, and the data and the operating system are separated, so that the data cannot be lost due to the crash of the virtual machine operating system, and the safety of the data is ensured.
FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of a virtual machine based data storage system according to another embodiment of the present invention. As shown in fig. 5, based on the embodiment shown in fig. 4, the virtual machine-based data storage system may further include: a creation module 300 and a formatting module 400. The creating module 300 is used for creating an operating system image file and a storage disk file. Formatting module 400 is configured to format operating system image files into system mount file system 200 and storage disk files into data storage file system 100.
Further, the virtual machine-based data storage system may further include: an acquisition module 500 and a channel establishment module 600. The obtaining module 500 is configured to obtain a virtual machine identifier associated with a storage disk file, for example, the virtual machine identifier may be obtained through a virtual machine storage association management function. The channel establishing module 600 is configured to establish a loading channel between a virtual machine corresponding to the virtual machine identifier and the storage disk file, and may be implemented by using a virtual disk technology, for example.
Still further, the virtual machine-based data storage system may further include: a web storage server 700 and a web browser 800. The web storage server 700 is configured to establish a link channel and associate the storage disk file with the link channel. The web browser 800 is used to access data stored in the data storage file system 100 through a link. Therefore, the stored data can be used as long as the internet can be accessed, and the convenience of data management is improved.
In one embodiment of the invention, the system may also include a plurality of virtual machines (not shown). Thus, data can be edited across operating systems, making the data portable.
The data storage method and system based on the virtual machine, provided by the embodiment of the invention, have the following beneficial effects at least:
1. by separating the virtual machine operating system from the data storage, the data cannot be lost due to the crash of the virtual machine operating system, and the safety of the data is ensured.
2. Because the storage disk file is not bound with the operating system, the data can be edited across the operating systems, so that the data has portability.
3. A user can directly access data in the data storage file system through the web browser, and the data can be used only in places where the user can surf the internet, so that convenience of data management is improved.
Although embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described, it will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that changes, modifications, substitutions and alterations can be made in these embodiments without departing from the principles and spirit of the invention, the scope of which is defined in the appended claims and their equivalents.
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1. A data storage method based on a virtual machine is characterized by comprising the following steps:
s1: creating an operating system mirror image file and a storage disk file;
s2: formatting the operating system image file into a system installation file system, and formatting the storage disk file into a data storage file system;
s3: installing a virtual machine operating system on the system installation file system, and associating the storage disk file with the virtual machine operating system to establish a loading channel of a virtual machine corresponding to the virtual machine operating system and the storage disk file; and
s4: and storing data into the data storage file system through the virtual machine operating system and the corresponding loading channel.
2. The virtual machine-based data storage method according to claim 1, wherein the step S3 further comprises:
installing a virtual machine operating system on the system installation file system;
acquiring a virtual machine identifier associated with the storage disk file;
and establishing a loading channel between the storage disk file and the virtual machine corresponding to the virtual machine identifier.
3. The virtual machine-based data storage method of claim 1, further comprising:
editing the data stored in the data storage file system through other virtual machines; or,
and editing the data stored in the data storage file system through a web browser.
4. The virtual machine-based data storage method of claim 3, wherein the editing the data stored in the data storage file system by the other virtual machine further comprises:
closing a loading channel between the current virtual machine and the storage disk file;
establishing a loading channel between the storage disk file and the other virtual machines;
and restarting the other virtual machines, and editing the data stored in the data storage file system through the operating systems and the corresponding loading channels of the other virtual machines.
5. The virtual machine-based data storage method of claim 3, wherein the editing the data stored in the data storage file system through a web browser further comprises:
closing a loading channel between the current virtual machine and the storage disk file;
establishing a link channel of the web browser, and associating the storage disk file with the link channel;
accessing files in the data storage file system through the web browser.
6. A virtual machine-based data storage system, comprising:
a data storage file system for storing data; and
and the system installation file system is associated with the data storage file system and is provided with a virtual machine operating system, and the data is stored into the data storage file system through the virtual machine operating system.
7. The virtual machine-based data storage system of claim 6, further comprising:
the creating module is used for creating an operating system mirror image file and a storage disk file; and
and the formatting module is used for formatting the operating system image file into the system installation file system and formatting the storage disk file into the data storage file system.
8. The virtual machine-based data storage system of claim 6, further comprising:
the acquisition module is used for acquiring the virtual machine identifier associated with the storage disk file; and
and the channel establishing module is used for establishing a loading channel between the storage disk file and the virtual machine corresponding to the virtual machine identifier.
9. The data storage system of claim 6, comprising a plurality of virtual machines.
10. The virtual machine-based data storage system of claim 6, further comprising:
the Web storage server is used for establishing a link channel and associating the storage disk file with the link channel; and
and the Web browser is used for accessing the data stored in the data storage file system through the link channel.
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