Nutanix Assigned Patent

Nutanix, Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (8,997,097) developed by Aron, Mohit, Los Altos, CA, Pandey, Dheeraj, San Ramon, CA, and Singh, Ajeet, Cupertino, CA, for a “system for implementing a virtual disk in a virtualization environment.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A system for implementing a virtual disk in a virtualization environment, including a plurality of nodes, wherein the plurality of nodes implements a virtualization environment, and a node comprises a hypervisor, user virtual machines, and a storage controller implemented as a service virtual machine, a plurality of storage devices that are accessed by user virtual machines and are managed by storage controllers, in which a first and a second virtual disk, (vDisk) are formed from the plurality of storage devices and the first virtual disk is accessible by just a first user virtual machine and the second virtual disk is accessible by just a second user virtual machine.“

The patent application was filed on January 18, 2013 (13/744,703).