Yellowbrick Data, Inc.

Sandisk Technologies Inc.

Neil Carson

Nisha D Talagala

Robert A Wipfel

David Nellans

Anirudh Badam

Mark Brinicombe

A system and method distributes work to workers using a timetable containing priority lists of requests to be performed by one worker or multiple workers.

System and method for assigning tasks

System and method for assigning tasks to computer system elements

Techniques are disclosed relating to enabling virtual machines to access data on a physical recording medium. In one embodiment, a computing system provides a logical address space for a storage device to an allocation agent that is executable to allocate the logical address space to a plurality of virtual machines having access to the storage device. In such an embodiment, the logical address space is larger than a physical address space of the storage device. The computing system may then process a storage request from one of the plurality of virtual machines. In some embodiments, the allocation agent is a hypervisor executing on the computing system. In some embodiments, the computing system tracks utilizations of the storage device by the plurality of virtual machines, and based on the utilizations, enforces a quality of service level associated with one or more of the plurality of virtual machines.

Virtualization support for storage devices

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Palo Alto, CA, United States of America

Neil Carson