IMPORTING WORKLOAD DATA INTO A SHARDED VIRTUAL DISK

    公开(公告)号:US20230132493A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-05-04

    申请号:US17452772

    申请日:2021-10-28

    Applicant: Nutanix, Inc.

    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for importing a workload from an external system into a virtualization system. A virtual disk (vDisk) is created based on analysis of the data layout of the workload. The vDisk is sharded into a plurality of non-overlapping shards. Independently executing shard controllers are assigned to the non-overlapping shards. On an ongoing basis, the plurality of shard controllers manage respective shards of the plurality of shards. I/O activity on at least some individual ones of the plurality of shard controllers is monitored on an ongoing basis. Two or more shard controllers can be merged into a single shard controller when the I/O activity on the two or more shard controllers is measured to be below a threshold. A single shard controller can be split into two or more shard controllers when I/O activity on the single shard controller is measured to be above a threshold.

    DYNAMICALLY FORMATTED STORAGE ALLOCATION RECORD

    公开(公告)号:US20220391094A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-08

    申请号:US17514221

    申请日:2021-10-29

    Applicant: NUTANIX, INC.

    Abstract: One or more non-transitory computer-readable media can store program instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform steps of organizing storage as a set of storage regions, each storage region having a fixed size; and for each storage region, storing a storage allocation structure of the storage region formatted in a first format selected from a format set including at least two formats, determining a change of an allocation feature of the storage region, based on the allocation feature of the storage region, selecting, from the format set, a second format of the storage allocation structure, and reformatting the storage allocation structure in the second format.

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