Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Samer Arafeh

Yue Zuo

Bradley Gene Calder

Ju Wang

Andrew James Edwards

Hoi Huu Vo

Anu Engineer

Forrest Curtis Foltz

Yimin Deng

Vivek Bhanu

Vivek P Divakara

Hoyuen Chau

Robert Binneweg Francis

Jeffrey Edwin Shipman

Nicholas James Anderson

A method for managing storage and computational resources in a datacenter includes obtaining a power delivery limit for a rack power supply delivering power to the plurality of computing devices and measuring a resource telemetry for the first computing device and second computing device in the server rack. In response to measuring a power draw of the server rack above a power threshold value of the power delivery limit, the method includes allocating the second computing device of the server rack as a storage server to the first computing device. The method occurs at a server rack including a plurality of computing devices. A first computing device and a second computing device are in network communication with one another. Each of the first computing device and second computing device include a processor and a hardware storage device.

Allocating compute nodes as storage in a power-constrained environment

Cloud computing platforms having computer-readable media that perform methods for facilitating communications with storage. A request having a first-interface format to access storage is intercepted. The first interface format of the request supports access to a virtual hard drive (VHD). The request is translated to a blob request having a blob interface format. The blob interface format of the blob request supports access to a plurality of blobs of data in a blob store. The blob request is communicated to a blob interface such that the blob request is executed in managing the plurality of blobs.

Methods and systems for facilitating communications with storage

Managing virtual hard drives as blobs

Computerized methods, systems, and computer-storage media for allowing virtual machines (VMs) residing on a common physical node to fairly share network bandwidth are provided. Restrictions on resource consumption are implemented to ameliorate stressing the network bandwidth or adversely affecting the quality of service (QoS) guaranteed to tenants of the physical node. The restrictions involves providing a scheduler that dynamically controls networking bandwidth allocated to each of the VMs as a function of QoS policies. These QoS policies are enforced by controlling a volume of traffic being sent from the VMs. Controlling traffic includes depositing tokens into token-bucket queues assigned to the VMs, respectively. The tokens are consumed as packets pass through the token-bucket queues. Upon consumption, packets are held until sufficient tokens are reloaded to the token-bucket queues.

Applying policies to schedule network bandwidth among virtual machines

Cloud computing platforms having computer-readable media that perform methods to manage virtual hard drives as blobs are provided. The cloud computing platform includes fabric computers and blob stores. The fabric computers execute virtual machines that implement one or more applications that access virtual hard drives. The data in the virtual hard drives is accessed, via a blob interface, from blobs in the blob stores. The blob stores interface with a driver that translates some application input/output (I/O) requests destined to the virtual hard drives to blob commands when accessing data in the virtual hard drives.

Method and computer storage media for efficiently deploying an operating system are provided. A virtual hard drive file is communicated by a computing device, such as a server. The virtual hard drive file may be compounded with a boot manager enhancer and/or a translator. Upon receipt of the virtual hard drive file, a computing device is enhanced to expose and mount the virtual hard drive as a drive and boot option for the computing device. Thereafter, an initial boot sequence may be commenced utilizing the virtual hard drive file as the boot source. In some embodiments, a boot manager enhancer and a translator are utilized to do one or more of expose, mount, and translate the virtual hard drive file. In some embodiments, a virtual SCSI miniport driver is utilized to do one or more of expose, mount, and translate the virtual hard drive file.

Efficient method for operating system deployment

An application compatibility module is disclosed that provides compatibility between legacy binary system modules ('legacy binaries') and a native operating system. The application compatibility module therefore allows legacy applications to execute within the native operating system, while still using their corresponding legacy binaries. The application compatibility module may provide compatibility between legacy binaries and the native operating system by translating communications between the legacy binaries and the native operating system.

Environment for executing legacy applications on a native operating system

Method and computer storage media for efficiently deploying an operating system are provided. A virtual hard drive file is received by a computing device. Upon receipt of the virtual hard drive file, the computing device is enhanced to expose and mount the virtual hard drive as a drive and boot option for the computing device. Thereafter, an initial boot sequence may be commenced utilizing the virtual hard drive file as the boot source. In some embodiments, a boot manager enhancer and a translator are utilized to do one or more of expose, mount and translate the virtual hard drive file. In some embodiments, a virtual SCSI miniport driver is utilized to do one or more of expose, mount, and translate the virtual hard drive file.

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Sammamish, WA, United States of America

Samer Arafeh