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Failover and failback of distributed file servers

US12164383B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Nutanix, Inc. · US

Inventors

Shyamsunder Prayagchand Rathi · Sunnyvale, US
Hemanth Kumar Thummala · San Jose, US
Lakshmana Reddy · San Jose, US
Pradeep Thomas · San Jose, US
Kalpesh Ashok Bafna · Milpitas, US
Manoj P. Naik · San Jose, US

Key dates

Filing date	Jan 21, 2022
Grant date	Dec 10, 2024
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jan 10, 2043

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F2201/84
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An example file server manager updates a selected share of a destination distributed file server based on a snapshot of at least a portion of a selected share of a source distributed file server. The selected share of the destination distributed file server is updated while the source distributed file server serves client requests for storage items of the selected share of the source distributed file server. The file server manager receives a request to failover from the source distributed file server to the destination distributed file server and configures the destination distributed file server to service read and write requests for storage items of the selected share of the destination distributed file server. The file server manager further redirects client requests for storage items of the selected share of the source distributed file server to the destination distributed file server by updating active directory information.

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