公开(公告)号：US20150082300A1

公开(公告)日：2015-03-19

申请号：US14026721

申请日：2013-09-13

Applicant: NetApp. Inc

Inventor： Geeta Parag Gokhale ,  Timothy J. Clayton-Luce ,  Umesh Betahalli Venkatesh

IPC: G06F9/455

CPC classification number: G06F9/45533

Abstract: A method and system are introduced to enable an application in a virtualized environment to communicate with multiple types of virtual servers (e.g., VMware ESX server, Microsoft Virtual Server, etc.), yet without making any source code change to the application. An interface is provided so that an application (e.g., a storage management application) running in a virtual machine is able to communicate with the underlying virtual server to receive information regarding some physical hardware that are not virtualized by the virtual server. For example, such physical hardware may be an iSCSI Host Bus Adapter (iSCSI HBA) or a Fiber Channel Protocol Host Bus Adapter (Fcp HBA). After receiving such information, the application can access the physical hardware to provide services to other applications, such as storage management services.

Abstract translation: 引入了一种方法和系统，以使虚拟化环境中的应用程序能够与多种类型的虚拟服务器（例如，VMware ESX服务器，Microsoft虚拟服务器等）进行通信，但不会对应用程序进行任何源代码更改。 提供接口，使得在虚拟机中运行的应用程序（例如，存储管理应用程序）能够与底层虚拟服务器通信，以接收关于虚拟服务器未虚拟化的某些物理硬件的信息。 例如，这样的物理硬件可以是iSCSI主机总线适配器（iSCSI HBA）或光纤通道协议主机总线适配器（Fcp HBA）。 收到此类信息后，应用程序可以访问物理硬件，为其他应用程序（如存储管理服务）提供服务。