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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 05, 2018
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Peng Dai, Acton, MA (US);
Matthew B Amdur, Winchester, MA (US);
Christos Karamanolis, Los Gatos, CA (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for decoupling compute and storage resources in a hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) are provided. In one set of embodiments, a control plane of the HCI deployment can provision a host from a host platform of an infrastructure on which the HCI deployment is implemented and can provision one or more storage volumes from a storage platform of the infrastructure, where the storage platform runs on physical server resources in the infrastructure that are separate from the host platform. The control plane can then cause the one or more storage volumes to be network-attached to the host in a manner that enables a hypervisor of the host to make the one or more storage volumes available, as part of a virtual storage pool, to one or more virtual machines in the HCI deployment for data storage.