American Megatrends Assigned Patent
Dynamic VM storage usage monitoring, provisioning, and migration
By Francis Pelletier | May 31, 2017 at 2:29 pmAmerican Megatrends, Inc., Norcross, GA, has been assigned a patent (9,645,841) developed by Ayanam, Varadachari Sudan, Suwanee, GA, Kondalsamy, Venkatesaperumal, Mathews, Santhosh Samuel, Chennai, India, and Christopher, Samvinesh, Suwanee, GA, for a “dynamic virtual machine storage usage monitoring, provisioning, and migration.“
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “An intelligent virtual desktop infrastructure, (iVDI) system is described. The system includes a first storage module having a processor, in communication with a hypervisor, and implemented by a volatile memory. The first storage module supplies a plurality of virtual machine operating systems, (VMOSs) to the hypervisor. The hypervisor runs virtual machine, (VMs) corresponding to the VMOSs. The systems also includes a VMOS management module configured to execute a first determination operation to determine if a usage of the first storage module has reached a preset storage limit. If yes, the VMOS management module selectively, (a) initiate a deduplication operation directed to the plurality of VMOSs stored in the first storage module and, (b) initiate a removal operation including removing at least one of the VMOSs from the first storage module and/or turning off at least one of the VMs running on the hypervisor.“
The patent application was filed on June 10, 2014 (14/300,964).