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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 13, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 20, 2018
Nutanix, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Partha Ramachandran, San Jose, CA (US);
Ritesh Rekhi, San Jose, CA (US);
Srini Ramasubramanian, San Jose, CA (US);
Gregory A. Smith, San Jose, CA (US);
Nutanix, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method can include requesting, by a network agent in a virtual machine in a hypervisor-attached infrastructure, a first identifier of a first resource device. The method can include comparing the first identifier to a plurality of known identifiers. The method can include determining a first location of the first resource device in response to matching the first identifier to one of the plurality of known identifiers. The method can include requesting a second identifier of a second resource device. The method can include determining a second location of the second resource device in response to the second identifier being different from each of the plurality of known identifiers. The second location can be different than the first location.