Cohesity Assigned Two Patents

Hosting virtual machines on secondary storage system
Cohesity, Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,891,154) developed by Bhat, Anand, Boggarapu, Anil Kumar, Bangalore, India, and Jagannath, Arvind, San Jose, CA, for “hosting virtual machines on a secondary storage system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”At least a portion of a virtual machine is hosted on at least one node of a first subset of a plurality of nodes of a secondary storage system. The virtual machine comprises a plurality of portions that can be distributed between the plurality of nodes and is configured into a first state of a plurality of states, such that, in the first state, the plurality of portions is distributed between a first subset of the plurality of nodes and each of the first subset of nodes stores a portion of the virtual machine in its corresponding storage device. A node from the second subset of the plurality of nodes to host the virtual machine in a second state of the plurality of states is selected based on at least one of storage, memory or processing resources of one or more nodes of a second subset of the plurality of nodes.”

The patent application was filed on November 6, 2019 (16/676,151).

Fast migration of metadata
Cohesity, Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,891,067) developed by Jain, Sachin, Fremont, CA, Pallipadi, Venkatesh, Campbell, CA, and Naeni, Sharath Kumar, Santa Clara, CA, for a “fast migration of metadata.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”One or more buckets of key-value pairs of a first node of a distributed storage system are selected to be migrated to a second node of the distributed storage system. One or more underlying database files corresponding to the one or more selected buckets are identified. The one or more identified underlying database files are directly copied from a storage of a first node to a storage of the second node. The copied underlying database files are linked in a database of the second node to implement the one or more selected buckets in the second node.”

The patent application was filed on February 7, 2019 (16/270,257).