Nutanix, Inc.

Gokul Kannan

Gaurav Poothia

Aditya Ramesh

Robert William Schwenz

Hemanth Kumar Mantri

Kamalneet Singh

Ashwin Thennaram Vakkayil

Alok Nemchand Kataria

Felipe Franciosi

Hema Venkataramani

Sreejith Mohanan

Raphael Shai Norwitz

A system and method include classifying and assigning virtual disks accessed from compute only nodes. The method determines, by a management processor of a virtual computing system, characteristics for a plurality of virtual disks hosted on a plurality of hyper converged nodes in a cluster of nodes in the virtual computing system. The method further classifies, by the management processor, each of the plurality of virtual disks based on the determined characteristics and identifies, by the management processor, one of the plurality of virtual disks to host data for a virtual machine on a compute only node based on the classification to spread out input-output demand in the cluster, reducing probability of input-output bottlenecks and increasing cluster-wide storage throughput. The method also assigns, by the management processor, the identified virtual disk to host data for the virtual machine located on the compute only node.

Assigning a virtual disk to a virtual machine hosted on a compute node for improved network performance

Methods, systems, and computer program products for high-performance cluster computing. Multiple components are operatively interconnected to carry out operations for high-performance RDMA I/O transfers over an RDMA NIC. A virtual machine of a virtualization environment initiates a first I/O call to an HCI storage pool controller using RDMA. Responsive to the first I/O call, a second I/O call is initiated from the HCI storage pool controller to a storage device of an HCI storage pool. The first I/O call to the HCI storage pool controller is implemented through a first virtual function of an RDMA NIC that is exposed in the user space of the virtualization environment. Prior to the first RDMA I/O call, a contiguous unit of memory to use in an RDMA I/O transfer is registered with the RDMA NIC. The contiguous unit of memory comprises memory that is registered using non-RDMA paths such as TCP or iSCSI.

Optimizing RDMA performance in hyperconverged computing environments

Virtual disk management for virtual disks accessed from compute only nodes

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Gokul Kannan