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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2014
Filed:
May. 14, 2013
Applicant:
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventors:
Michael Nelson, Alamo, CA (US);
Hao Xu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Daniel J. Scales, Mountain View, CA (US);
Matthew B. Amdur, Cambridge, MA (US);
Assignee:
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/28 (2006.01); G06F 12/14 (2006.01); G06F 13/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/145 (2013.01); G06F 13/42 (2013.01); G06F 2213/0028 (2013.01); G06F 2213/0058 (2013.01);
Abstract
A virtualization technique, in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, includes emulating the small computing system interface (SCSI) protocol to access a virtual SCSI storage device backed by a file stored on network attached storage (NAS).