Inventors:
Satyam B. Vaghani - San Jose CA, US
Ilia Sokolinski - Brighton MA, US
Tejasvi Aswathanarayana - Malden MA, US
Komal Desai - Fremont CA, US
Sujay Godbole - Roxbury Crossing MA, US
Sanjay Acharya - Fremont CA, US
Rajesh Bhat - Sunnyvale CA, US
Chiao-Chuan Shih - San Jose CA, US
Assignee:
VMware, Inc. - Palo Alto CA
International Classification:
G06F 9/455
Abstract:
The storage system exports logical storage volumes that are provisioned as storage objects. These storage objects are accessed on demand by connected computer systems using standard protocols, such as SCSI and NFS, through logical endpoints for the protocol traffic that are configured in the storage system. When a virtual machine is provisioned, logical storage volumes include a logical metadata storage volume and logical data storage volumes. The logical metadata storage volume stores metadata for the virtual machine such as configuration and log files, swap file, and disk descriptor files. Each disk descriptor file is provided for one logical data storage volume and stores metadata about the logical data storage volume such as size and unique identifying data.