Nutanix Assigned Patent

Nutanix, Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,362,101) developed by Cui, Miao, New York, NY, for a “mechanism for providing load balancing to an external node utilizing a clustered environment for storage management.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A method for providing load balancing to a client node external to a clustered environment for storage management, includes deploying a lightweight load balancing component at the client node, receiving I/O requests issued by virtual machines hosted at the client node by the lightweight load balancing component, performing a hashing algorithm on content of the I/O requests by the lightweight load balancing component to identify one or more controller virtual machines at the clustered environment for handling the I/O requests and dynamically distributing the I/O requests from the lightweight load balancing component to the one or more controller virtual machines at the clustered environment for storage management.”

The patent application was filed on July 3, 2017 (15/641,077).