Virtual machine object version control

    公开(公告)号:US12007943B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-06-11

    申请号:US16679113

    申请日:2019-11-08

    Applicant: Nutanix, Inc.

    CPC classification number: G06F16/128 G06F9/45558 G06F11/1448

    Abstract: A method for indexing virtual machine version snapshots in a virtualization environment commences upon receiving a request (e.g., from an administrator or agent) to initiate a virtual machine version snapshot operation on a subject virtual machine. Processes within or controlled by the subject virtual machine are requested to temporarily suspend transactions and file I/O. When the processes that have been requested to temporarily suspend transactions and file I/O acknowledge quiescence, the method continues by generating a virtual machine version snapshot data structure. An entry in an index is formed from the virtual machine version snapshot data structure. Multiple instances of virtual machine version snapshot data structures can be stored in the index, and the index can be queried to determine the state that a virtual machine had at any of the snapshotted moments in time.

    Virtual machine mobility
    2.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10454773B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-10-22

    申请号:US15362715

    申请日:2016-11-28

    Applicant: Nutanix, Inc.

    Abstract: Particular embodiments comprise (1) a cluster of host machines, each comprising at least one virtual machine (VM), one or more virtual infrastructure elements, and one or more required drivers for implementing the virtualization environment, and (2) a target host machine capable of implementing the virtualization environment based on a second platform, wherein the target host machine comprises at least one VM and one or more virtual infrastructure elements. A management module for the system performs steps to move one of the VMs from the cluster of host machines to the target host machine by checking whether the target host machine comprises one or more required drivers for implementing the virtualization environment and, if the target host machine comprises the one or more required drivers, activating the one or more required drivers, and sending a confirmation signal back to a control plane in the cluster of host machines.

    Efficient disaster recovery across heterogeneous storage systems

    公开(公告)号:US10120764B1

    公开(公告)日:2018-11-06

    申请号:US15224206

    申请日:2016-07-29

    Applicant: Nutanix, Inc.

    Abstract: Systems for storage system rollover and rollback. A data mover agent is installed on a source storage system to capture disaster recovery data and send to a target system. Upon receiving a rollover event signal, a virtualized controller creates one or more replica user virtual machines running on the target system that serve to replicate functions of the user virtual machines from the source storage system. The virtualized controller on the target system converts the target disaster recovery data from a first format to a second format to facilitate use of the target disaster recovery data by the replica user virtual machines. Rollback is initiated when the target system receives a rollback event signal. Differences in the data that have occurred between the rollover event and the rollback signal are calculated and sent to the rollback system. The calculated differences are applied to a registered snapshot on the rollback system.

    Context-based disaster recovery
    6.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11455215B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-27

    申请号:US16398250

    申请日:2019-04-29

    Applicant: Nutanix, Inc.

    Abstract: Systems and methods for unified application-level backup and restore using heterogeneous cloud-based backup service providers. An application programming interface is configured to process both data level replication operations as well as application-level operations that are executed to carry out high-level commands between a virtualized computing environment and any one or more of the heterogeneous cloud-based backup service providers. The API receives commands from applications in the virtualized computing environment. The API processes commands from the applications so as to facilitate replication of data to selected one or more cloud-based backup service providers. The commands perform data level replication operations as well as application-level operations for storing content to the cloud-based service provider. After a failure event and/or upon receipt of a restore command, the API initiates application-level operations that restore the application and its constituent entities. The data state is restored by the API using data level restore operations.

    Network reconfiguration in hypervisor-agnostic disaster recovery scenarios

    公开(公告)号:US11074096B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-07-27

    申请号:US16279722

    申请日:2019-02-19

    Applicant: Nutanix, Inc.

    Abstract: Systems for restarting a virtual machine in a disaster recovery scenario where a network configuration differs between the failed system and the recovery system. A method commences upon identifying a disaster recovery plan for restarting a virtual machine from a first system on a second system (e.g., a recovery system). A configuration for providing network access at the second system through an adapter present in the second system is stored at a location accessible to the second system. Restarting the virtual machine at the second system upon detection of a failure event at the first system.

    Efficient change block training
    9.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10467103B1

    公开(公告)日:2019-11-05

    申请号:US15081489

    申请日:2016-03-25

    Applicant: Nutanix, Inc.

    Abstract: Snapshot data (e.g., changed blocks) resulting from operation of applications is captured in two forms: (1) in a bitmap that indicates if one or more blocks in a range of blocks has changed, and (2) as the changed block data itself. The changed blocks are sent to a remote disaster recovery location only once per snapshot period. Even through a particular block might have been changed many times during a snapshot period, only the last version of the changed block is sent to the remote disaster recovery location. The fact that a block has been changed can be parsimoniously managed by determining an address space for the source data, dividing the address space into a plurality of ranges, and indicating which blocks if any in a particular range have been changed. Such modification indicators are sent to the disaster recovery location only once per snapshot period.

    Hypervisor agnostic bidirectional secure channel for guest agent transport

    公开(公告)号:US10129241B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-11-13

    申请号:US15936207

    申请日:2018-03-26

    Applicant: Nutanix, Inc.

    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer readable medium for virtualized computing environments. A method for providing a connection between a guest virtual machine and a service virtual machine uses driver code functions to establish a listening port on the service virtual machine without providing a listening port on the guest virtual machine. The guest virtual machine initiates a remote procedure call socket between itself and the service virtual machine over a secure, hardened port. The service virtual machine presents an authority certificate by encoding into the authority certificate identifying information received from the guest virtual machine. The service virtual machine makes available (e.g., as an ISO image) the authority certificate, which is used to establish new secure connections. Communications continue, where some communications are initiated by the service virtual machine over the hardened port, and some communications are initiated on-demand by the guest virtual machine over newly-established and authenticated secure RPC connections.

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