Vmware, Inc.

Nathan Burnett

Christos Karamanolis

Mansi Shah

William John Earl

Techniques are described for storing a virtual disk in an object store comprising a plurality of physical storage devices housed in a plurality of host computers. A profile is received for creation of the virtual disk wherein the profile specifies storage properties desired for an intended use of the virtual disk. A virtual disk blueprint is generated based on the profile such that that the virtual disk blueprint describes a storage organization for the virtual disk that addresses redundancy or performance requirements corresponding to the profile. A set of the physical storage devices that can store components of the virtual disk in a manner that satisfies the storage organization is then determined.

Virtual disk blueprints for a virtualized storage area network utilizing physical storage devices located in host computers

Embodiments presented herein techniques for balancing a multidimensional set of resources of different types within a distributed resources system. Each host computer providing the resources publishes a status on current resource usage by guest clients. Upon identifying a local imbalance, the host computer determines a source workload to migrate to or from the resources container to minimize the variance in resource usage. Additionally, when placing a new resource workload, the host computer selects a resources container that minimizes the variance to further balance resource usage.

Load balancing of resources

Creating, by host computers, respective object of virtual disk based on virtual disk blueprint

Virtual disk blueprints for a virtualized storage area network, wherein virtual disk objects are created from local physical storage of host computers that are running multiple virtual machines

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Palo Alto, CA, United States of America

Nathan Burnett