Decoupling compute and storage resources in cloud-based HCI (hyper-converged infrastructure)
US10949238B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Dec 5, 2018 |
| Grant date | Mar 16, 2021 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 29, 2039 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F2209/5011
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Techniques for decoupling compute and storage resources in a hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) are provided. In one set of embodiments, a control plane of the HCI deployment can provision a host from a host platform of an infrastructure on which the HCI deployment is implemented and can provision one or more storage volumes from a storage platform of the infrastructure, where the storage platform runs on physical server resources in the infrastructure that are separate from the host platform. The control plane can then cause the one or more storage volumes to be network-attached to the host in a manner that enables a hypervisor of the host to make the one or more storage volumes available, as part of a virtual storage pool, to one or more virtual machines in the HCI deployment for data storage.
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