Virtualized server systems and methods including scaling of file system virtual machines

US11875176B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Nutanix, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Kalpesh Ashok Bafna · Milpitas, US
• Eric Wang · Milpitas, US
• Anil Kumar Gopalapura Venkatesh · Santa Clara, US
• Manoj P. Naik · San Jose, US
• Yifeng Huang · San Jose, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 24, 2022
• Grant date: Jan 16, 2024
• Expiry date: Feb 25, 2042

Classification

• Technology area (CPC —): General

Abstract

Examples described herein include virtualized environments including a virtualized file server. Examples of file server virtual machine managers are described which may setup and/or configure file server virtual machines in accordance with a target number of connections and/or a target throughput for the virtualized file server. The virtualized file server may be scaled up, scaled down, scaled in, and/or scaled out.