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Nutanix Assigned Patent

Virtualized file server backup to cloud

Nutanix, Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,101,989) developed by Sinha, Vishal, Union City, CA, Sharpe, Richard James, Mountain View, CA, Bafna, Kalpesh Ashok, Milpitas, CA, Gopalapura Venkatesh, Anil Kumar, Santa Clara, CA, Arikatla, Durga Mahesh, San Jose, CA, and Rathi, Shyamsunder Prayagchand, Sunnyvale, CA, for a “virtualized file server backup to cloud.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “In one embodiment, a system for managing a virtualization environment comprises a plurality of host machines, one or more virtual disks comprising a plurality of storage devices, a virtualized file server, (VFS) comprising a plurality of file server virtual machines, (FSVMs), wherein each of the FSVMs is running on one of the host machines and conducts I/O transactions with the one or more virtual disks, and a virtualized file server backup system configured to back up data stored in a VFS located a cluster of host machines to an object store, and retrieve the backed-up data as needed to restore the data in the VFS. The object store may be located in a public cloud. The object store may include a low-cost storage medium within the cluster. An FSVM of the VFS may provide an object store interface to low-cost storage media.

The patent application was filed on February 2, 2017 (15/422,874).

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