Nutanix Assigned Two Patents

Managing de-duplication of data in virtualization environment
Nutanix, Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,389,887) developed by Aron, Mohit, Los Altos, CA, Pandey, Dheeraj, San Ramon, CA, and Singh, Ajeet, Cupertino, CA, for a “method and system for managing de-duplication of data in a virtualization environment.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A system for managing de-duplication of data in a virtualization environment, that includes a plurality of nodes, wherein the plurality of nodes implements a virtualization environment, a plurality of primary storage devices that are accessed by virtual machines in the virtualization environment, and wherein data undergoes de-duplication in the virtualization environment such that an instruction to store a data item that is issued by a virtual machine is not duplicatively stored if the data item is already stored in the plurality of the primary storage devices.“

The patent application was filed on January 18, 2013 (13/744,649).

Implementing maintenance service
for managing I/O and storage for virtualization environment
Nutanix, Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,354,912) developed by Aron, Mohit, Los Altos, CA, Chun, Brent, Monrovia, CA, and Bayapuneni, Chaitanya Venkata Krishna, Santa Clara, CA, for a “method and system for implementing a maintenance service for managing I/O and storage for a virtualization environment.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Disclosed is an approach for overseeing the overall state of a virtual storage system, and for taking actions as necessary to manage the health and efficient performance of that system. A curator entity is provided on a distributed basis to manage and perform these functions. A master curator manages this workload that is performed by multiple slave curators. MapReduce operations are performed to implement the curator workload. Periodically, the master curator coordinates a full scan of all the metadata in the system using three MapReduce operations. Partial scans may also be run using a single MapReduce operation.“

The patent application was filed on July 22, 2013 (13/947,668).