Schneider Electric IT Assigned Patent

Schneider Electric IT Corp., Foxboro, MA, has been assigned a patent (11,003,478) developed by Grehan, David, Claremorris, Ireland, for “systems and methods for protecting virtual machines running on software-defined storage.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”According to aspects of the present disclosure, a method of operating a virtual storage area network cluster including a plurality of hosts is provided, each host of the plurality of hosts executing at least one Virtual Machine (VM) and being configured to receive power from a respective Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) of a plurality of UPSs, the method comprising acts of determining a number of critical UPSs of the plurality of UPSs, each critical UPS of the plurality of UPSs corresponding to a critical host of the plurality of hosts, determining that the number of critical UPSs does not exceed a fault tolerance level, and migrating VMs hosted by the critical hosts to non-critical hosts of the plurality of hosts.”

The patent application was filed on March 22, 2019 (Appl. No.16/361,760).