Primaryio, Inc.

Harish Chandra Pujari

Dilip Madhusudan Ranade

Anand Mitra

Prasad Gajanan Joshi

An embodiment of the invention provides an apparatus comprising: a hypervisor comprising a virtual caching appliance (VCA) and an intermediate multipathing module that interfaces with VCA; wherein the intermediate multipathing module is configured to pass an I/O request from a virtual machine to the VCA; and wherein the VCA is configured to determine if the I/O request is to be passed from the VCA to a solid state storage or if the I/O request is to be passed from the VCA to a hard disk storage. Another embodiment of the invention provides a method comprising: passing an I/O request from a virtual machine to a virtual caching appliance (VCA) in a hypervisor; and determining if the I/O request is to be passed from the VCA to a solid state storage or if the I/O request is to be passed from the VCA to a hard disk storage.

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