ARCHITECTURE FOR IMPLEMENTING A VIRTUALIZATION ENVIRONMENT AND APPLIANCE

    公开(公告)号:US20210034404A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-02-04

    申请号:US16947790

    申请日:2020-08-17

    Applicant: Nutanix, Inc.

    Abstract: An improved architecture is provided which enables significant convergence of the components of a system to implement virtualization. The infrastructure is VM-aware, and permits scaled out converged storage provisioning to allow storage on a per-VM basis, while identifying I/O coming from each VM. The current approach can scale out from a few nodes to a large number of nodes. In addition, the inventive approach has ground-up integration with all types of storage, including solid-state drives. The architecture of the invention provides high availability against any type of failure, including disk or node failures. In addition, the invention provides high performance by making I/O access local, leveraging solid-state drives and employing a series of patent-pending performance optimizations.

    ARCHITECTURE FOR MANAGING I/O AND STORAGE FOR A VIRTUALIZATION ENVIRONMENT

    公开(公告)号:US20190332575A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-10-31

    申请号:US16404736

    申请日:2019-05-06

    Applicant: Nutanix, Inc.

    Abstract: Disclosed is an improved approach to implement I/O and storage device management in a virtualization environment. According to some approaches, a Service VM is employed to control and manage any type of storage device, including directly attached storage in addition to networked and cloud storage. The Service VM implements the Storage Controller logic in the user space, and can be migrated as needed from one node to another. IP-based requests are used to send I/O request to the Service VMs. The Service VM can directly implement storage and I/O optimizations within the direct data access path, without the need for add-on products.

    ARCHITECTURE FOR IMPLEMENTING A VIRTUALIZATION ENVIRONMENT AND APPLIANCE

    公开(公告)号:US20200042342A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-02-06

    申请号:US16535905

    申请日:2019-08-08

    Applicant: Nutanix, Inc.

    Abstract: An improved architecture is provided which enables significant convergence of the components of a system to implement virtualization. The infrastructure is VM-aware, and permits scaled out converged storage provisioning to allow storage on a per-VM basis, while identifying I/O coming from each VM. The current approach can scale out from a few nodes to a large number of nodes. In addition, the inventive approach has ground-up integration with all types of storage, including solid-state drives. The architecture of the invention provides high availability against any type of failure, including disk or node failures. In addition, the invention provides high performance by making I/O access local, leveraging solid-state drives and employing a series of patent-pending performance optimizations.

    ARCHITECTURE FOR IMPLEMENTING A VIRTUALIZATION ENVIRONMENT AND APPLIANCE

    公开(公告)号:US20180011732A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-01-11

    申请号:US15714880

    申请日:2017-09-25

    Applicant: Nutanix, Inc.

    Abstract: An improved architecture is provided which enables significant convergence of the components of a system to implement virtualization. The infrastructure is VM-aware, and permits scaled out converged storage provisioning to allow storage on a per-VM basis, while identifying I/O coming from each VM. The current approach can scale out from a few nodes to a large number of nodes. In addition, the inventive approach has ground-up integration with all types of storage, including solid-state drives. The architecture of the invention provides high availability against any type of failure, including disk or node failures. In addition, the invention provides high performance by making I/O access local, leveraging solid-state drives and employing a series of patent-pending performance optimizations.

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