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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2009
Bradley Gene Calder, Bellevue, WA (US);
Andrew James Edwards, Bellevue, WA (US);
Ju Wang, Redmond, WA (US);
Samer Arafeh, Sammamish, WA (US);
Anu Engineer, Redmond, WA (US);
Yue Zuo, Redmond, WA (US);
Bradley Gene Calder, Bellevue, WA (US);
Andrew James Edwards, Bellevue, WA (US);
Ju Wang, Redmond, WA (US);
Samer Arafeh, Sammamish, WA (US);
Anu Engineer, Redmond, WA (US);
Yue Zuo, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Cloud computing platforms having computer-readable media that perform methods to manage virtual hard drives as blobs are provided. The cloud computing platform includes fabric computers and blob stores. The fabric computers execute virtual machines that implement one or more applications that access virtual hard drives. The data in the virtual hard drives is accessed, via a blob interface, from blobs in the blob stores. The blob stores interface with a driver that translates some application input/output (I/O) requests destined to the virtual hard drives to blob commands when accessing data in the virtual hard drives.