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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2013
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Thomas A. Phelan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Mayank Rawat, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Deng Liu, Mountain View, CA (US);
Kiran Madnani, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Sambasiva Bandarupalli, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for using a host-side cache to accelerate virtual machine (VM) I/O are provided. In one embodiment, the hypervisor of a host system can intercept an I/O request from a VM running on the host system, where the I/O request is directed to a virtual disk residing on a shared storage device. The hypervisor can then process the I/O request by accessing a host-side cache that resides one or more cache devices distinct from the shared storage device, where the accessing of the host-side cache is transparent to the VM.