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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 28, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2012
Thomas A. Phelan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Erik Cota-robles, Mountain View, CA (US);
David William Barry, Kensington, CA (US);
Adam Back, Sliema, MT;
Thomas A. Phelan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Erik Cota-Robles, Mountain View, CA (US);
David William Barry, Kensington, CA (US);
Adam Back, Sliema, MT;
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments present a virtual disk image to applications such as virtual machines (VMs) executing on a computing device. The virtual disk image corresponds to one or more subparts of binary large objects (blobs) of data stored by a cloud service, and is implemented in a log structured format. Grains of the virtual disk image are cached by the computing device. The computing device caches only a subset of the grains and performs write operations without blocking the applications to reduce storage latency perceived by the applications. Some embodiments enable the applications that lack enterprise class storage to benefit from enterprise class cloud storage services.