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ARCHITECTURE FOR MANAGING I/O AND STORAGE FOR A VIRTUALIZATION ENVIRONMENT USING EXECUTABLE CONTAINERS AND VIRTUAL MACHINES

  • US 20160359955A1
  • Filed: 06/03/2016
  • Published: 12/08/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/05/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for managing storage devices in a multi-node cluster, the method comprising:

  • configuring a plurality of nodes, a node of the plurality of nodes comprising a node-specific control virtual machine and one or more user containers, wherein the node-specific control virtual machine operates as a storage controller dedicated to the node; and

    processing, by the node-specific control virtual machine, one or more storage access IO commands that is initiated by the one or more user containers to access a plurality of storage devices that are shared by at least two of the plurality of nodes.

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