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VMware Assigned Patent

Storage management system for virtual machines

VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA, has been assigned a patent (8,914,567) by Miroshnichenko Alex, San Francisco, CA, Pashenkov Serge, Redwood City, CA, and Shats Serge, Palo Alto, CA, for a “storage management system for virtual machines.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A computer system (a method) for providing storage management solution that enables server virtualization in data centers is disclosed. The system comprises a plurality of storage devices for storing data and a plurality of storage management drivers configured to provide an abstraction of the plurality of the storage devices to one or more virtual machines of the data center. A storage management driver is configured to represent a live disk or a snapshot of a live disk in a virtual disk image to the virtual machine associated with the driver. The driver is further configured to translate a logical address for a data block to one or more physical addresses of the data block through the virtual disk image. The system further comprises a master server configured to manage the abstraction of the plurality of the storage devices and to allocate storage space to one or more virtual disk images.

The patent application was filed on September 14, 2009 (12/559,103).

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