Pernixdata, Inc.

Deepak Muley

Satyam B Vaghani

Akhilesh Joshi

Bryan Jeffrey Crowe

Michal Ostrowski

Shyan-Ming Perng

Shankar Vilayannur Natarajan

Example distributed caching systems and methods are described. In one implementation, a system has multiple host systems, each of which includes a cache resource that is accessed by one or more consumers. A management server is coupled to the multiple host systems and presents available cache resources and resources associated with available host systems to a user. The management server receives a user selection of at least one available cache resource and at least one host system. The selected host system is then configured to share the selected cache resource.

Distributed caching systems and methods

Fault domains are defined which reflect, either physically or virtually, the topology of a networked computing environment. These defined fault domains are then used to control where cached data is replicated when running in a write back cache mode. Unlike known replication approaches, the present approach replicates such data according to a user's defined data policy and based on the defined fault domains thereby avoiding the user having to keep track of changes in computing system configurations or update their data policy when virtual machines migrate from one host computing system to another.

Management and utilization of fault domains in distributed cache systems

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Santa Clara, CA, United States of America

Deepak Muley