Virtualized file server distribution across clusters

US12079621B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Nutanix, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Richard James Sharpe · Mountain View, US
• Durga Mahesh Arikatla · San Jose, US
• Kalpesh Ashok Bafna · Milpitas, US
• Satyajit Sanjeev Deshmukh · Milpitas, US
• Shyamsunder Prayagchand Rathi · Sunnyvale, US
• Vishal Sinha · Portland, US
• Devyani Suryakant Kanada · Cupertino, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 10, 2022
• Grant date: Sep 3, 2024
• Expiry date: Nov 10, 2042

Classification

• Technology area (CPC —): General

Abstract

In one embodiment, a system for managing a virtualization environment includes host machines implementing a virtualization environment, a plurality of clusters of the host machines, a virtualized file server (VFS) comprising a plurality of file server virtual machines (FSVMs), and a VFS cluster manager (CM) configured to distribute storage items among the clusters and receive cluster storage statistics for one or more shares of the VFS. The CM is further configured to, in response to a request from a first FSVM to identify a storage location for a storage item, identify a cluster at which the storage item is to be located based on the cluster storage statistics, identify a second FSVM at which the storage item is to be located based on compute usage statistics of one or more FSVMs in the identified cluster, and send an address of the second FSVM to the first FSVM.