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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 21, 2015
Applicant:
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventors:
Thomas A. Phelan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Mayank Rawat, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Kiran Madnani, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Wei Zhang, San Jose, CA (US);
Deng Liu, Mountain View, CA (US);
Sambasiva Bandarupalli, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2006.01); G06F 12/0842 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0608 (2013.01); G06F 3/0605 (2013.01); G06F 3/065 (2013.01); G06F 3/0631 (2013.01); G06F 3/0647 (2013.01); G06F 3/0652 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 12/023 (2013.01); G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 12/0842 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45583 (2013.01);
Abstract
Techniques for surfacing host-side flash storage capacity to a plurality of VMs running on a host system are provided. In one embodiment, the host system creates, for each VM in the plurality of VMs, a flash storage space allocation in a flash storage device that is locally attached to the host system. The host system then causes the flash storage space allocation to be readable and writable by the VM as a virtual flash memory device.