Hybrid hyper-converged infrastructure and storage appliance
US9830082B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 31, 2016 |
| Grant date | Nov 28, 2017 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 31, 2036 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F2009/45595
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A technique for operating a Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) system includes running an IO stack on a physical computing server of the HCI system. The IO stack exposes multiple protocol endpoints for providing host applications with access to data objects. Protocol endpoints are exposed both to host applications running within the HCI system and to host applications running on external computing devices, thus enabling the HCI system to double as a data storage system with respect to external computing devices.
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