Disaster recovery for distributed file servers, including metadata fixers

US11048595B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Nutanix, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Anil Kumar Gopalapura Venkatesh · Santa Clara, US
• Devyani Suryakant Kanada · Cupertino, US
• Kalpesh Ashok Bafna · Milpitas, US
• Mausumi Ranasingh · San Jose, US
• Saurabh Tyagi · Mountain View, US
• Vijaykumar Bellubbi · Wandoor, IN

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 5, 2017
• Grant date: Jun 29, 2021
• Expiry date: Dec 5, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC —): General

Abstract

Examples of systems described herein include a virtualized file servers. Examples of virtualized file servers described herein may support disaster recovery of the virtualized file server. Accordingly, examples of virtualized file servers may support metadata fixing procedures to update metadata in a recovery setting. Examples of virtualized file servers may support hypervisor-agnostic disaster recovery.