Vmware, Inc.

Ashish Ramakrishna Reddy

Anjaneya Prasad Gondi

Shoby A Cherian

Wenhua Liu

Aditya Kiran Pentyala

Some embodiments provide a method of providing distributed storage services to a host computer from a network interface card (MC) of the host computer. At the NIC, the method accesses a set of one or more external storages operating outside of the host computer through a shared port of the NIC. In some embodiments, the method accesses the external storage set by using a network fabric storage driver that employs a network fabric storage protocol to access the external storage set. The method presents the external storage as a local storage of the host computer to a set of programs executing on the host computer. In some embodiments, the method presents the local storage by using a storage emulation layer on the NIC to create a local storage construct that presents the set of external storages as a local storage of the host computer.

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San Jose, CA, United States of America

Ashish Ramakrishna Reddy