Entity database framework

US10223150B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Nutanix, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Artem Yevgenyevich Livshits · Bellevue, US
• Ming Chen · Union City, US
• Mohan Maturi · San Jose, US
• Ning Zhou · Fremont, US
• Rahul Paul · Tampa, US
• Rahul Singh · Mountain View, US
• Ramesh Chandra · Santa Clara, US
• Shrivatsan Vasudhevan · Sammamish, US
• Suresh Sivaprakasam · Saratoga, US
• Swagat Borah · Bengaluru, IN
• Vyas Ram Selvam · Bengaluru, IN

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 2, 2017
• Grant date: Mar 5, 2019
• Expiry date: May 25, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F2201/835
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

In particular embodiments, a system for managing a virtualization environment includes host machines, each of the host machines including a hypervisor, user virtual machines (UVMs) and a virtual machine controller. The virtualization environment also includes virtual disks comprising a plurality of storage devices, and being accessible by the virtual machine controllers. The virtual machine controllers conduct I/O transactions with the virtual disks. The system stores an entity-relationship graph representing elements in the virtualization environment. Each of the elements is represented by an entity-type node in the entity-relationship graph, and relationships between the elements are represented by edges between the nodes.