Patent 11487549 was granted and assigned to Cohesity on November, 2022 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An indication that a virtual machine is starting is received. Requested data blocks associated with the virtual machine are identified. Based on identifiers of the requested data blocks, a trained learning model is used to predict one or more subsequent data blocks likely to be requested while the virtual machine is starting. The one or more subsequent data blocks are caused to be preloaded in a cache storage.