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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 04, 2014
Sandisk Technologies Llc, Plano, TX (US);
Jerene Zhe Yang, San Jose, CA (US);
Yang Luan, San Jose, CA (US);
Brent Lim Tze Hao, San Jose, CA (US);
Vikram Joshi, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Michael Brown, Campbell, CA (US);
Prashanth Radhakrishnan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
David Flynn, Sandy, UT (US);
Bhavesh Mehta, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC, Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
An I/O manager may be configured to service I/O requests pertaining to ephemeral data of a virtual machine using a storage device that is separate from and/or independent of a primary storage resource to which the I/O request is directed. Ephemeral data may be removed from ephemeral storage in response to a removal condition and/or trigger, such as a virtual machine reboot. The I/O manager may manage transfers of ephemeral virtual machine data in response to virtual machines migrating between host computing devices. The I/O manager may be further configured to cache virtual machine data, and/or manage shared file data that is common to two or more virtual machines operating on a host computing device.