Orchestrating high availability failover for virtual machines stored on distributed object-based storage
US9495259B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 27, 2014 |
| Grant date | Nov 15, 2016 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 1, 2035 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F2201/815
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Techniques are disclosed for orchestrating high availability (HA) failover for virtual machines (VMs) running on host systems of a host cluster, where the host cluster aggregates locally-attached storage resources of the host systems to provide an object store, and where persistent data for one or more of the VMs is stored as per-VM storage objects across the locally-attached storage resources comprising the object store. In one embodiment, a host system in the host cluster executing a HA module determines a VM to be restarted on an active host system in the host cluster. The host system further determines if the VM's persistent data is stored in the object store. If so, the host system adds the VM to a list of VMs to be immediately restarted. Otherwise, the host system checks whether the VM is accessible to the host system by querying a storage layer of the host system configured to manage the object store.
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