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Patent No.:

US 11093402 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 2021

Filed:

Aug. 27, 2019

Transparent host-side caching of virtual disks located on shared storage

Applicant:

Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:

Thomas A Phelan, San Francisco, CA (US);

Mayank Rawat, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Deng Liu, Mountain View, CA (US);

Kiran Madnani, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Sambasiva Bandarupalli, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorney:

Fountainhead Law Group P.C.

Primary Examiner:

Pierre Miche Bataille

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/08 (2016.01); G06F 12/0866 (2016.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06F 12/0871 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0866 (2013.01); G06F 3/061 (2013.01); G06F 3/0631 (2013.01); G06F 3/0685 (2013.01); G06F 9/455 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 9/5088 (2013.01); G06F 12/0871 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45579 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1024 (2013.01); G06F 2212/217 (2013.01);
Abstract

Techniques for using a cache to accelerate virtual machine (VM) I/O are provided. In one embodiment, a host system can intercept an I/O request from a VM running on the host system, where the I/O request is directed to a virtual disk residing on a shared storage device. The host system can then process the I/O request by accessing a cache that resides on one or more cache devices directly attached to the host system, where the accessing of the cache is transparent to the VM.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Phelan, Thomas. (2021). Transparent host-side caching of virtual disks located on shared storage (U.S. Patent No. 11093402). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/11093402

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