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Provisioning a pass-through disk in a virtualized computing environment

US8452921B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateMar 17, 2010
Grant dateMay 28, 2013
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Expiry dateJul 8, 2031

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F9/4555
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A physical host machine determines that a storage device from a network storage system is available to the host machine as a pass-through disk. Virtualization software running on the host machine assigns the pass-through disk to a temporary resource group on the host machine. The pass-through disk is logically attached to the virtual machine running on the host machine and made available to an operating system and application running on the virtual machine.

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