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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 23, 2015
Cachebox Inc., San Carlos, CA (US);
Harish Chandra Pujari, Pune, IN;
Anand Mitra, Pune, IN;
Dilip Madhusudan Ranade, Pune, IN;
Prasad Gajanan Joshi, Pune, IN;
PrimaryIO, Inc., San Carlos, CA (US);
Abstract
An embodiment of the invention provides an apparatus comprising: a hypervisor comprising a virtual caching appliance (VCA) and an intermediate multipathing module that interfaces with VCA; wherein the intermediate multipathing module is configured to pass an I/O request from a virtual machine to the VCA; and wherein the VCA is configured to determine if the I/O request is to be passed from the VCA to a solid state storage or if the I/O request is to be passed from the VCA to a hard disk storage. Another embodiment of the invention provides a method comprising: passing an I/O request from a virtual machine to a virtual caching appliance (VCA) in a hypervisor; and determining if the I/O request is to be passed from the VCA to a solid state storage or if the I/O request is to be passed from the VCA to a hard disk storage.