Nutanix, Inc.

Alexander Michael Bunch

Kalpesh Ashok Bafna

Aroosh Sohi

Venkata Vamsi Krishna Kothuri

Rishabh Sharma

Mausumi Ranasingh

Miao Cui

Toms Varghese

Alay Vyomeshbhai Shah

Ajay Prakash Kulkarni

Peter Alan Turshmid

Sandeep Goutele

An apparatus may include one or more processors and non-transitory, computer-readable instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive, using a first security model, an indication to form a cluster including a set of nodes, establish, using the first security model, a connection with the set of nodes, in response to the set of nodes forming the cluster, automatically disable the first security model, and receive, as part of the cluster, using a second security model, a request directed to the cluster.

Systems and methods for increased security in cluster formation

In one embodiment, a system for managing a virtualization environment includes a set of host machines, each of which includes a hypervisor, virtual machines, and a virtual machine controller, one or more virtual disks comprising a plurality of storage devices, the one or more virtual disks being accessible by the virtual machine controllers, where the virtual machine controllers conduct I/O transactions with the virtual disks, and a deployment system configured to receive a request to deploy a virtualized file server on a plurality of host machines, where the request is associated with deployment parameters, select a deployment image for the host machines based on the deployment parameters, and provide the deployment image to each host machine via the virtual disk. The virtual machine controller located on the host machine stores at least a portion of the deployment image on a storage device associated with the host machine.

Virtualized file server deployment

A system may include a deployment system configured to receive a request to upgrade a selected virtual machine (VM) of multiple VMs on a plurality of host machines from a first program code version to a second program code version, and, for each host machine, request an upgrade token. When the host machine acquires the upgrade token, the deployment system is configured to generate a snapshot of a code image associated with the second program code version, and provide the snapshot to the host machine via a virtual disk. The snapshot is stored on a storage device associated with a host machine or a server host machine. The snapshot may include metadata identifying a location of the code image on the storage device.

Virtualized file server rolling upgrade

An approach for full-path data encryption, where user virtualized computers (e.g., user VMs) are configured to communicate with other virtualized computers or VMs using IPsec protocol encryption standards. The user VMs may send a first encryption or authorization key to the other VMs, which the other VMs may use to authenticate the user VMs and encrypt and decrypt data stored to storage devices using a second encryption key. In some approaches, the other VMs may interpret or decrypt the data sent via IPsec and then perform data optimizations (e.g., compression, deduplication) on the data before decrypting/encrypting with the second key.

Optimizable full-path encryption in a virtualization environment

In one embodiment, a system for managing a virtualization environment includes a set of host machines, each of which includes a hypervisor, virtual machines, and a virtual machine controller, one or more virtual disks comprising a plurality of storage devices and accessible by the virtual machine controllers, and a deployment system configured to receive a request to upgrade a virtualized file server on a plurality of host machines from a first program code version to a second program code version, and, for each host machine, request an upgrade token. When the host machine acquires the upgrade token, the deployment system is configured to generate a snapshot of a code image associated with the second program code version, and provide the snapshot to the host machine via the virtual disk. The virtual machine controller located on the host machine stores the snapshot on a storage device associated with the host machine.

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Seattle, WA, United States of America

Alexander Michael Bunch