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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 12, 2015
Applicant:
Netapp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventors:
Song Li, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Thien Nguyen, Milpitas, CA (US);
Assignee:
NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45533 (2013.01); G06F 3/067 (2013.01); G06F 3/0607 (2013.01); G06F 3/0631 (2013.01); G06F 3/0664 (2013.01); G06F 3/0665 (2013.01); G06F 9/4555 (2013.01);
Abstract
A physical host machine determines that a storage device from a network storage system is available to the host machine as a pass-through disk. Virtualization software running on the host machine assigns the pass-through disk to a temporary resource group on the host machine. The pass-through disk is logically attached to the virtual machine running on the host machine and made available to an operating system and application running on the virtual machine.