SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR IMPROVING VIRTUAL DESKTOP INFRASTRUCTURE PERFORMANCE

• US 20130086579A1
• Filed: 09/30/2011
• Published: 04/04/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Vertiscale, Inc. (Neverfail, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Virtual Bridges, Inc. (VERDE VDI)
• Inventors: Reiter, Leonardo, Venkat, Jikku
• Application Number:
  US13/250,410
• Publication Number:
  US 20130086579A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 718/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/45562 Creating, deleting, cloning virtual machine instances
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/45579 I/O management, e.g. providing access to device drivers or storage
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45558 Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a system, method, and computer readable medium for improved Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) performance by locally caching at least a part of a common operating environment (COE) gold image to hypervisor-node storage rather than shared data stores. Additionally, the present disclosure enables scheduled and differential synchronization of the gold images in off-hours to reduce loads on the shared data store.

Claims

1. A system for improved virtual desktop infrastructure performance employing local caching, the system comprising:

at least one hypervisor server capable of providing at least one virtual machine to at least one device, said at least one hypervisor server comprising;

at least one common operating environment gold image, wherein at least a portion of said at least one common operating environment gold image resides on a hypervisor-node storage of said at least one hypervisor server;

said at least one virtual machine instantiating said at least one common operating environment gold image, said at least one virtual machine comprising;

a virtual machine cache, said virtual machine cache storing persistent user state data; and

a copy-on-write bit bucket, said copy-on-write bit bucket temporarily storing non-persistent system state data;

wherein said virtual machine cache is capable of transmitting and receiving said persistent user state data to and from at least one shared data store; and

said at least one shared data store storing at least one authoritative common operating environment gold image, wherein said at least one authoritative common operating environment gold image is synchronized with said at least one common operating environment gold image residing on said at least one hypervisor-node storage.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein said at least one shared data store is in a central location and said at least one hypervisor server is in branch location.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein said at least one shared data store and said at least one hypervisor server are located in a central location.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein said at least one authoritative common operating environment gold image and said portion of at least one common operating environment gold image residing on said hypervisor-node storage are synchronized on a predetermined schedule.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein said at least one authoritative common operating environment gold image and said portion of at least one common operating environment gold image residing on said hypervisor-node storage are differentially synchronized.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein said hypervisor-node storage comprises direct attached storage.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein said hypervisor-node storage comprises local storage.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein approximately 90% of system state input/output operations occur on said at least one hypervisor server.

9. A method for improving virtual desktop infrastructure performance employing local caching, the system comprising:

caching at least a portion of a common operating environment gold image on a hypervisor-node storage, said hypervisor-node storage residing on a hypervisor server;

reading at least a portion of said common operating environment gold image from said hypervisor-node storage to instantiate said common operating environment gold image on at least one virtual machine, said at least one virtual machine residing on said hypervisor server;

writing non-persistent system state data to a copy-on-write bit bucket, said copy-on-write bit bucket temporarily storing said non-persistent system state data, said copy-on-write bit bucket residing on said at least one virtual machine;

writing persistent user state data to a virtual machine cache, said virtual machine cache residing on said at least one virtual machine, said virtual machine cache capable of transmitting and receiving said persistent user state data to and from at least one shared data store; and

synchronizing said common operating environment gold image with an authoritative common operating environment gold image residing on said at least one shared data store.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein said step of synchronizing further comprises the step of synchronizing on a predetermined schedule.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein said step of synchronizing further comprises the step of scheduling synchronization during off-hours.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein said step of synchronizing further comprises the step of differential synchronization.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein said step of caching at least a portion of said common operating environment gold image further comprises the step of caching said common operating environment gold image entirely on said hypervisor-node storage.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein said step of reading at least a portion of said common operating environment continues when said hypervisor server is disconnected from said at least one shared data store.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein said step of reading at least a portion of said portion of said common operating environment gold image from said hypervisor-node storage further comprises the step of reading said common operating environment gold image entirely from said hypervisor-node storage.

16. A system for improved virtual desktop infrastructure performance employing local caching, the system comprising:

at least one hypervisor server capable of providing at least one virtual machine to at least one device, said at least one hypervisor server comprising;

at least one common operating environment gold image, wherein at least a portion of said at least one common operating environment gold image resides on a hypervisor-node storage of said at least one hypervisor server;

said at least one virtual machine instantiating said at least one common operating environment gold image, said at least one virtual machine comprising a copy-on-write bit bucket temporarily storing non-persistent system state data; and

said at least one shared data store storing at least one authoritative common operating environment gold image, wherein said at least one authoritative common operating environment gold image is synchronized with said at least one common operating environment gold image residing on said at least one hypervisor-node storage.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein said at least one shared data store is in a central location and said at least one hypervisor server is in branch location.

18. The system of claim 16, wherein said at least one shared data store and said at least one hypervisor server are located in a central location.

19. The system of claim 16, wherein said at least one authoritative common operating environment gold image and said portion of at least one common operating environment gold image residing on said hypervisor-node storage are synchronized on a predetermined schedule.

20. The system of claim 16, wherein said at least one authoritative common operating environment gold image and said portion of at least one common operating environment gold image residing on said hypervisor-node storage are differentially synchronized.