Nutanix Assigned Patent

Nutanix, Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,095,506) developed by Gopalapura Venkatesh, Anil Kumar, Santa Clara, CA, Sharpe, Richard James, Mountian View, CA, Arikatla, Durga Mahesh, San Jose, CA, Bafna, Kalpesh Ashok, Milpitas, CA, and Kanada, Devyani Suryakant, Cupertino, CA, for a “virtualized file server data sharing.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “In one embodiment, a system for managing a virtualization environment includes a set of host machines, each of which includes a hypervisor, virtual machines, and a virtual machine controller, and a first virtualized file server configured to receive a request to access a storage item located at a second virtualized file server, determine that the storage item is designated as being accessible by other virtualized file servers, identify an FSVM of the second virtualized file server at which the storage item is located, and forward the request to the FSVM of the second virtualized file server. The storage item may be designated as being accessible by other virtualized file servers when the storage item is associated with a predetermined tag value indicating that the storage item is shared among virtualized file servers. The predetermined tag value may be stored in a sharding map in association with the storage item.”

The patent application was filed on February 1, 2017 (15/422,240).