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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 02, 2017
Nutanix, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Vishal Sinha, Union City, CA (US);
Richard James Sharpe, Mountain View, CA (US);
Kalpesh Ashok Bafna, Milpitas, CA (US);
Anil Kumar Gopalapura Venkatesh, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Durga Mahesh Arikatla, San Jose, CA (US);
Shyamsunder Prayagchand Rathi, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Nutanix, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a system for managing a virtualization environment comprises a plurality of host machines, one or more virtual disks comprising a plurality of storage devices, a virtualized file server (VFS) comprising a plurality of file server virtual machines (FSVMs), wherein each of the FSVMs is running on one of the host machines and conducts I/O transactions with the one or more virtual disks, and a virtualized file server backup system configured to back up data stored in a VFS located a cluster of host machines to an object store, and retrieve the backed-up data as needed to restore the data in the VFS. The object store may be located in a public cloud. The object store may include a low-cost storage medium within the cluster. An FSVM of the VFS may provide an object store interface to low-cost storage media.