Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Techniques for surfacing host-side storage capacity to virtual machines when performing VM suspend or snapshot operations
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Application No.: US14919379Application Date: 2015-10-21
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Publication No.: US09778847B2Publication Date: 2017-10-03
- Inventor: Thomas A. Phelan , Mayank Rawat , Kiran Madnani , Wei Zhang , Deng Liu , Sambasiva Bandarupalli
- Applicant: VMware, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Assignee: VMware, Inc.
- Current Assignee: VMware, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Main IPC: G06F13/00
- IPC: G06F13/00 ; G06F3/06 ; G06F12/02 ; G06F9/455 ; G06F12/0842
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.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160041771A1 Techniques for Surfacing Host-Side Flash Storage Capacity to Virtual Machines Public/Granted day:2016-02-11
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