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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2026
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2024
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Brian Ray Fabec, Round Rock, TX (US);
Kevin Kuhner, Cary, NC (US);
John Henry Welborn, Jr., Cary, NC (US);
Kenny Huang, Holly Springs, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An architecture for demultiplexing volumes in a storage device includes a virtual machine. A guest operating system is in the virtual machine. The architecture further includes a storage pool of virtual storage blocks and a hypervisor. The hypervisor is configured to organize the storge pool of virtual storage blocks into a plurality of virtual storage partition tables. Device addresses are assigned to the plurality of virtual storage partition tables. The plurality of virtual storage partition tables and the devices addresses are organized into a virtual storage device. The device addresses are presented to the guest operating system in the virtual machine.