File system interface for remote direct memory access

    公开(公告)号:US10706005B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-07

    申请号:US15836577

    申请日:2017-12-08

    Applicant: VMware, Inc.

    Abstract: Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems include a distributed memory agent within a first node intercepting an operating system request to open a file from an application running on the first node. The request includes a file identifier, which the distributed memory agent transmits to a remote memory manager. The distributed memory agent receives, from the remote memory manager, a memory location within a second node for the file identifier and information to establish a remote direct memory access channel between the first node and the second node. In response to the request to open the file, the distributed memory agent establishes the remote direct memory access channel between the first node and the second node. The remote direct memory access channel allows the first node to read directly from or write directly to the memory location within the second node while bypassing an operating system of the second node.

    Application High Availability via Crash-Consistent Asynchronous Replication of Persistent Data

    公开(公告)号:US20190129800A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-02

    申请号:US15881514

    申请日:2018-01-26

    Applicant: VMware, Inc.

    Abstract: Techniques for achieving application high availability via crash-consistent asynchronous replication of persistent data are provided. In one set of embodiments, an application running on a computer system can, during runtime of the application: write persistent data to a local nonvolatile data store of the computer system, write one or more log entries comprising the persistent data to a local log region of the computer system, and asynchronously copy the one or more log entries to one or more remote destinations. Then, upon detecting a failure that prevents the application from continuing execution, the computer system can copy the local log region or a remaining portion thereof to the one or more remote destinations, where the copying is performed while the computer system runs on battery power and where the application is restarted on another computer system using a persistent state derived from the copied log entries.

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