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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 18, 2013
Nutanix, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Mohit Aron, Los Altos, CA (US);
Dheeraj Pandey, San Ramon, CA (US);
Ajeet Singh, Cupertino, CA (US);
NUTANIX, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A system for communicating to a storage controller in a virtualization environment, including a plurality of nodes, wherein the plurality of nodes implements a virtualization environment, and a node comprises a hypervisor and multiple user virtual machines; a plurality of storage devices that are accessed by the virtual machine; and a storage controller implemented as a service virtual machine on the node to manage access by the multiple user virtual machines to the plurality of storage devices, wherein a networking protocol is used to communicate between the multiple user virtual machines and the storage controller.