Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Anu Engineer

Bradley Gene Calder

Ju Wang

Andrew James Edwards

Samer Arafeh

Yue Zuo

Perraju Bendapudi

Rajesh Jalan

Kiran Akella Venkata

Rajasekhar Khandrika

Cloud computing platforms having computer-readable media that perform methods for facilitating communications with storage. A request having a first-interface format to access storage is intercepted. The first interface format of the request supports access to a virtual hard drive (VHD). The request is translated to a blob request having a blob interface format. The blob interface format of the blob request supports access to a plurality of blobs of data in a blob store. The blob request is communicated to a blob interface such that the blob request is executed in managing the plurality of blobs.

Methods and systems for facilitating communications with storage

Managing virtual hard drives as blobs

Cloud computing platforms having computer-readable media that perform methods to manage virtual hard drives as blobs are provided. The cloud computing platform includes fabric computers and blob stores. The fabric computers execute virtual machines that implement one or more applications that access virtual hard drives. The data in the virtual hard drives is accessed, via a blob interface, from blobs in the blob stores. The blob stores interface with a driver that translates some application input/output (I/O) requests destined to the virtual hard drives to blob commands when accessing data in the virtual hard drives.

Techniques for enabling inter-subsystem resource sharing are provided. A subsystem executing an application ('app subsystem') receives resources from another subsystem providing a resource ('resource subsystem'), such as a DLL. Then, when an application of the app subsystem is executed, the application may request a resource from the app subsystem, such as a DLL. The app subsystem, upon determining that the requested resource is associated with the resource subsystem, may communicate with the resource subsystem to request the resource. The resource subsystem may then load the resource. When the application utilizes the resource to perform an activity, such as by invoking a method of the DLL, the app subsystem may communicate with the resource subsystem to request the resource to perform the activity. The resource subsystem may provide an indication of a result to the resource subsystem upon completing the activity.

Enabling inter-subsystem resource sharing

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