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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2020

Filed:

Mar. 16, 2018
Applicant:

Nutanix, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Miao Cui, New York, NY (US);

Malcolm Crossley, Cambridge, GB;

Gaurav Poothia, Redmond, WA (US);

Assignee:

NUTANIX, INC., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 (2018.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06F 12/1009 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 9/5077 (2013.01); G06F 12/1009 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45562 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45579 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45583 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45595 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1044 (2013.01); G06F 2212/152 (2013.01); G06F 2212/652 (2013.01); G06F 2212/657 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and method include determining underprovisioning of a guest physical memory of a virtual machine running on a computing node. The node includes hardware resources that are mapped the guest physical memory by a hypervisor. The hypervisor receives page fault information from the virtual machine based on page faults in the virtual machine. The hypervisor generates a table that includes virtual memory address-process indicator pair entries and corresponding page fault numbers. The hypervisor removes those entries that have a corresponding page fault number that is less than a first threshold value. The hypervisor determines a size of a revolving memory based on the number of remaining entries and a page size of the guest physical memory. If the revolving memory size is less than a second threshold value in relation to the allocated size of the guest physical memory, the hypervisor indicates underprovisioning of the guest physical memory.


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