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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2022
Filed:
Nov. 28, 2019
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Marcos Aguilera, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Keerthi Kumar, Bangalore, IN;
Pramod Kumar, Bangalore, IN;
Arun Ramanathan, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Pratap Subrahmanyam, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Sairam Veeraswamy, Bangalore, IN (US);
Rajesh Venkatasubramanian, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Manish Mishra, Bangalore, IN;
VMWARE, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
The disclosure provides an approach for creating a pool of memory out of local memories of host machines, and providing that pool for the hosts to use. The pool is managed by a controller that keeps track of memory usage and allocated memory among hosts. The controller allocates or reclaims memory between hosts, as needed by the hosts. Memory allocated from a second host to a first host may then be divided into smaller portions by the first host, and further allocated to virtual machines executing within the first host.