Nutanix, Inc.

Robert William Schwenz

Gaurav Poothia

Aditya Ramesh

Hemanth Kumar Mantri

Miao Cui

Kamalneet Singh

Fabien Hermenier

Ashwin Thennaram Vakkayil

Gokul Kannan

Aroosh Sohi

Gregory A Smith

Constantine Andrew Kousoulis

Akshay Khole

Swathi Koundinya

Saish Sali

Suraj Nagaraja Kasi

Shashank Bipin Kumar

Chaitanya Sudhir Karlekar

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

An illustrative embodiment disclosed herein is an apparatus including a processor having programmed instructions to receive, from a client, a request to create a catalog item corresponding to a file, determine an identifier of a cluster manager associated with a cluster having available capacity, send, to the cluster manager, a source location of the catalog item, and cause the cluster manager to store the catalog item from the source location in the cluster.

System and method for catalog service

Virtual disk management for virtual disks accessed from compute only nodes

A system and method include migrating virtual machines (VMs) between compute only (CO) and hyper converged (HC) nodes. The method includes identifying, by a management processor of a virtual computing system, a plurality of virtual machines hosted on compute only (CO) nodes in the virtual computing system. The management processor then identifies hyper converged (HC) nodes having virtual disks hosting data for the plurality of virtual machines hosted on CO nodes. When a virtual machine (VM) in the plurality of virtual machines is migrating, the management processor biases the VM to migrate to a first HC node hosting a virtual disk assigned to host data for the VM.

Live migration of virtual machines between compute only nodes and hyperconverged nodes

A system and method include assigning virtual machines (VMs) to any one of compute only (CO) and hyper converged (HC) nodes. The method includes identifying, by a management processor of a virtual computing system, input-output patterns for a plurality of virtual disks in the virtual computing system; ranking, by the management processor, the plurality of virtual machines according to the identified input-output patterns; assigning, by the management processor, the plurality of virtual machines to any one of CO and HC nodes that optimize performance of the virtual computing system; monitoring, by the management processor, performance of the plurality of virtual machines; and determining, by the management processor, a change in behavior of one of the plurality of virtual machines.

Intelligent assignment of virtual machines to compute only or hyper converged nodes

In one embodiment, a system for managing communication connections in a virtualization environment, comprises a plurality of host machines implementing a virtualization environment, wherein each of the host machines comprises a hypervisor, at least one user virtual machine (UVM), a connection agent, and an I/O controller; and a virtual disk comprising a plurality of storage devices, the virtual disk being accessible by all of the I/O controllers, wherein the I/O controllers conduct I/O transactions with the virtual disk based on I/O requests received from the UVMs, and wherein, for each of the host machines: each of the UVMs on the host machine sends its respective I/O requests to a selected one of the I/O controllers, and for each of the UVMs on the host machine, the connection agent on the host machine selected one of the I/O controllers for the UVM based on a list of the available I/O controllers.

Connection management

Disclosed is a mechanism for performing rolling updates in a networked virtualization environment for storage management. The approach is applicable to any resource in the system, including controller VMs, hypervisors, and storage devices. Integrated processing may be performed across multiple types of upgrades.

Mechanism for performing rolling upgrades in a networked virtualization environment

A method for performing rolling updates with data unavailability checks in a networked virtualization environment for storage management.

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Campbell, CA, United States of America

Robert William Schwenz