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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 2023
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2017
Nutanix, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Anil Kumar Gopalapura Venkatesh, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Rishabh Sharma, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Richard James Sharpe, Mountain View, CA (US);
Shyamsunder Prayagchand Rathi, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Durga Mahesh Arikatla, San Jose, CA (US);
Nutanix, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a system for managing a virtualization environment comprises a plurality of host machines, one or more virtual disks comprising a plurality of storage devices, a virtualized file server (VFS) comprising a plurality of file server virtual machines (FSVMs), wherein each of the FSVMs is running on one of the host machines and conducts I/O transactions with the one or more virtual disks, and a virtualized file server self-healing system configured to identify one or more corrupt units of stored data at one or more levels of a storage hierarchy associated with the storage devices, wherein the levels comprise one or more of file level, filesystem level, and storage level, and when data corruption is detected, cause each FSVM on which at least a portion of the unit of stored data is located to recover the unit of stored data.