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Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 2024

Filed:

Sep. 06, 2021
Applicant:

Vmware Llc, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:

Yang Yang, Shanghai, CN;

Ye Zhang, Shanghai, CN;

Wenguang Wang, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Haifeng Li, Shanghai, CN;

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/20 (2006.01); G06F 16/182 (2019.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/2007 (2013.01); G06F 11/1423 (2013.01); G06F 11/2028 (2013.01); G06F 11/2094 (2013.01); G06F 16/1834 (2019.01); G06F 2201/85 (2013.01);
Abstract

The location of resources for file services are located within the same site, thereby eliminating or reducing performance issues caused by cross-site accesses in a stretched cluster environment. A file server placement algorithm initially places file servers at a site based at least in part on host workload and affinity settings, and can perform failover to move the file servers to a different location (e.g., to a different host on the same site or to another site) in the event of a failure of the host where the file servers were initially placed. File servers may be co-located with clients at a location based on client latencies and site workload. Failover support is also provided in the event that the sites in the stretched cluster have different subnet addresses.


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