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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2022
Filed:
May. 06, 2019
Applicant:
Nutanix, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Nutanix, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 (2018.01); G06F 9/48 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06F 16/11 (2019.01); G06F 16/174 (2019.01); G06F 16/18 (2019.01); H04L 49/356 (2022.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 (2013.01); G06F 3/06 (2013.01); G06F 3/064 (2013.01); G06F 3/0638 (2013.01); G06F 3/0641 (2013.01); G06F 9/45533 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 9/48 (2013.01); G06F 9/485 (2013.01); G06F 9/4806 (2013.01); G06F 9/4843 (2013.01); G06F 9/4856 (2013.01); G06F 9/4881 (2013.01); G06F 9/50 (2013.01); G06F 9/5005 (2013.01); G06F 9/5011 (2013.01); G06F 9/5016 (2013.01); G06F 9/5022 (2013.01); G06F 9/5027 (2013.01); G06F 9/5061 (2013.01); G06F 9/5072 (2013.01); G06F 9/5077 (2013.01); G06F 9/5083 (2013.01); G06F 9/5088 (2013.01); G06F 16/128 (2019.01); G06F 16/1748 (2019.01); G06F 16/1873 (2019.01); H04L 49/356 (2013.01); G06F 2009/4557 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45562 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45575 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45579 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45583 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45595 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed is an improved approach to implement I/O and storage device management in a virtualization environment. According to some approaches, a Service VM is employed to control and manage any type of storage device, including directly attached storage in addition to networked and cloud storage. The Service VM implements the Storage Controller logic in the user space, and can be migrated as needed from one node to another. IP-based requests are used to send I/O request to the Service VMs. The Service VM can directly implement storage and I/O optimizations within the direct data access path, without the need for add-on products.