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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 24, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 01, 2017
Nutanix, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Durga Mahesh Arikatla, San Jose, CA (US);
Hemanth Kumar Thummala, San Jose, CA (US);
Manish Gupta, Bangalore, IN;
Manoj Naik, San Jose, CA (US);
Saji Kumar Vijaya Kumari Rajendran Nair, Cupertino, CA (US);
Shyamsunder Prayagchand Rathi, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sukruth Sridharan, Bangalore, IN;
Nutanix, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Examples of systems described herein include a virtualized file server including a first file server virtual machine and a second file server virtual machine configured to manage a distributed file share of storage items. The second file server virtual machine is configured to manage a particular storage item of the distributed file share of storage items. The first file server virtual machine is configured to, in response to receipt of a referral request for a file share path for the particular storage item from a client, look up a file share path for the particular storage item in a map of at least a portion of the distributed file share of storage items, and provide a referral with the file share path that identifies the second file server virtual machine.