Nutanix Assigned Patent

Nutanix, Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,061,669) developed by Gill, Binny Sher, Bhattacharyya, Manosiz, San Jose, CA, and Arora, Varun Kumar, Santa Clara, CA, for a “mechanism for providing real time replication status information in a networked virtualization environment for storage management.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method for providing real time replication status for a networked virtualization environment for storage management, includes scanning metadata to identify replication status for all virtual disks, (vDisks) in the networked virtualization environment, generating replication tasks for vDisks that are identified as under replicated based on the scan, performing the replication tasks, monitoring the progress of the replication tasks and determining the real time replication status of the networked virtualization environment based on the scanned metadata and the monitored progress of the replication tasks.”

The patent application was filed on November 21, 2016 (15/357,742).