Nutanix Assigned Patent
Performing hot-swap of storage device in virtualization environment
By Francis Pelletier | February 27, 2017 at 2:32 pmNutanix, Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,552,211) developed by Cui, Miao, Mountain View, CA, and Gill, Binny Sher, San Jose, CA, for a “method for performing hot-swap of a storage device in a virtualization environment.“
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Performing a hot-swap of a storage device for a node in a virtualization environment having a plurality of storage devices, includes performing pass-thru of a storage manager managing the plurality of storage devices to a service virtual machine, such that the service virtual machine communicates with the plurality of storage devices without going through a storage software layer of its corresponding hypervisor, booting the hypervisor from a device other than the plurality of storage devices and performing the hot-swap of the storage device.“
The patent application was filed on December 30, 2013 (14/144,486).
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