×

VIRTUALIZED FILE SERVER DEPLOYMENT

  • US 20170235761A1
  • Filed: 02/01/2017
  • Published: 08/17/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/12/2016
  • Status: Active Grant
First Claim
Patent Images

1. A system for managing a virtualization environment, the system comprising:

  • a plurality of host machines, wherein each of the host machines comprises a hypervisor, one or more user virtual machines (user VMs), and a virtual machine controller;

    one or more virtual disks comprising a plurality of storage devices, the one or more virtual disks being accessible by the virtual machine controllers, wherein the virtual machine controllers conduct I/O transactions with the one or more virtual disks; and

    a deployment system configured to;

    receive a request to deploy a virtualized file server on a plurality of host machines, wherein the request is associated with one or more deployment parameters;

    select a deployment image for the host machines based on the deployment parameters; and

    instruct one or more of the host machines to retrieve the selected deployment image from the virtual disk;

    wherein the virtual machine controller located on each of the instructed host machines stores at least a portion of the deployment image on a first storage device associated with the host machine.

View all claims
  • 1 Assignment
Timeline View
Assignment View
    ×
    ×