METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO ACHIEVE MULTI-TENANCY IN RDMA OVER CONVERGED ETHERNET
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    发明申请
    METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO ACHIEVE MULTI-TENANCY IN RDMA OVER CONVERGED ETHERNET 有权
    在通过以太网的RDMA中实现多元化的方法和系统

    公开(公告)号:US20160188527A1

    公开(公告)日:2016-06-30

    申请号:US14656368

    申请日:2015-03-12

    Applicant: VMware, Inc.

    Abstract: A method for providing multi-tenancy support for RDMA in a system that includes a plurality of physical hosts. Each physical host hosts a set of data compute nodes (DCNs). The method, at an RDMA protocol stack of the first host, receives a packet that includes a request from a first DCN hosted on a first host for RDMA data transfer from a second DCN hosted on a second host. The method sends a set of parameters of an overlay network that are associated with the first DCN to an RDMA physical network interface controller of the first host. The set of parameters are used by the RDMA physical NIC to encapsulate the packet with an RDMA data transfer header and an overlay network header by using the set of parameters of the overlay network to transfer the encapsulated packet to the second physical host using the overlay network.

    Abstract translation: 一种用于在包括多个物理主机的系统中为RDMA提供多租户支持的方法。 每个物理主机托管一组数据计算节点(DCN)。 该方法在第一主机的RDMA协议栈处接收包含来自托管在第一主机上的第一DCN的请求的分组,用于从托管在第二主机上的第二DCN进行RDMA数据传输。 该方法将与第一DCN相关联的覆盖网络的一组参数发送到第一主机的RDMA物理网络接口控制器。 该组参数由RDMA物理NIC用于通过使用覆盖网络的一组参数将数据包与RDMA数据传输报头和覆盖网络报头封装,以使用覆盖网络将封装的分组传输到第二物理主机 。

    Creating and upgrading of solutions for deployment in a virtualized computing environment

    公开(公告)号:US11573779B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-07

    申请号:US17116818

    申请日:2020-12-09

    Applicant: VMware, Inc.

    Abstract: A method of creating a software image of a solution to be deployed in a virtualized computing environment includes: retrieving a schema of the solution and determining from the schema software products that are required by the solution and software features that are required by the solution; for each software product, selecting a version of the software product to include in the solution and identifying software features provided by the selected version of the software product; and upon confirming that the selected versions of the software products provide all of the software features that are required, creating the software image of the solution that includes the selected version of each of the software products, and saving the software image in a storage device for deployment in the virtualized computing environment.

    USING A NIC AS A NETWORK ACCELERATOR TO ACCESS AN EXTERNAL STORAGE

    公开(公告)号:US20220100546A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-31

    申请号:US17145329

    申请日:2021-01-09

    Applicant: VMware, Inc.

    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method of providing distributed storage services to a host computer from a network interface card (NIC) of the host computer. At the NIC, the method accesses a set of one or more external storages operating outside of the host computer through a shared port of the NIC that is not only used to access the set of external storages but also for forwarding packets not related to an external storage. In some embodiments, the method accesses the external storage set by using a network fabric storage driver that employs a network fabric storage protocol to access the external storage set. The method presents the external storage as a local storage of the host computer to a set of programs executing on the host computer. In some embodiments, the method presents the local storage by using a storage emulation layer on the NIC to create a local storage construct that presents the set of external storages as a local storage of the host computer.

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