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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 28, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2014
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Erik Cota-Robles, Kirkland, WA (US);
Kanika Nema, Pune, IN;
Thorbjoern Donbaek Jensen, Hoejbjerg, DK;
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A per device state is introduced that indicates whether a storage device is shared clusterwide or not. The state may be populated by default based on detected device locality. Devices detected as local and those shared by only a subset of host machines in a cluster of machines may have the state set to 'FALSE.' Devices which are shared by all the machines in a cluster may have the state set to 'TRUE.' Locality of storage devices in a cluster may be modified using such state information. Operations upon other storage device state may be modified depending upon device sharing state.