Virtuozzo International Assigned Patent

Virtuozzo International GmbH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (10,360,187) developed by Emelyanov, Pavel, Moscow, Russia, for a “hybrid storage for virtual machines and containers.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A hybrid storage capable of storing the image files and the service files for VMs and Containers is provided. A large files storage is placed onto a service volume. A VM image file is placed onto the large file storage and a file system is mounted on it. The small files storage is also placed onto the service volume. This way a portion of the large file storage can be seen to the management system for VMs and Containers as a part of an interface of the common file system. Thus, large files and small files reside on the same distributed storage. One file from the large file storage is dedicated as a service file. The file system is placed into this file, which is mounted into the system as a virtual disk. The small, (service) files are stored on the virtual disk. This way all files are accessible by the management system for VMs and Containers.”

The patent application was filed on March 5, 2016 (15/062,070).