Patent 9244969 was granted and assigned to EMC on January, 2016 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for mounting virtual machine disks. In some embodiments, this includes accessing, by a client, a first repository of virtual machine disks, selecting a virtual machine disk from the first repository, using a file level referral to redirect the client to a second repository, receiving the selected virtual machine disk from the second repository.