Nutanix Assigned Patent

Nutanix, Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,346,065) developed by Cui, Miao, New York, NY, and Gill, Binny Sher, San Jose, CA, for a “method for performing hot-swap of a storage device in a virtualization environment.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Performing a hot-swap of a storage device for a node in a virtualization environment having a plurality of storage devices, includes performing pass-thru of a storage manager managing the plurality of storage devices to a service virtual machine, such that the service virtual machine communicates with the plurality of storage devices without going through a storage software layer of its corresponding hypervisor, booting the hypervisor from a device other than the plurality of storage devices and performing the hot-swap of the storage device.”

The patent application was filed on January 23, 2017 (15/413,010).