Patents by Inventor Anil Kumar Gopalapura Venkatesh
Anil Kumar Gopalapura Venkatesh has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11966729Abstract: In one embodiment, a system for managing communication connections in a virtualization environment includes a plurality of host machines implementing a virtualization environment, wherein each of the host machines includes a hypervisor, at least one user virtual machine (user VM), and a distributed file server that includes file server virtual machines (FSVMs) and associated local storage devices. Each FSVM and associated local storage device are local to a corresponding one of the host machines, and the FSVMs conduct I/O transactions with their associated local storage devices based on I/O requests received from the user VMs. Each of the user VMs on each host machine sends each of its representative I/O requests to an FSVM that is selected by one or more of the FSVMs for each I/O request based on a lookup table that maps a storage item referenced by the I/O request to the selected one of the FSVMs.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Nutanix, Inc.Inventors: Richard James Sharpe, Kalpesh Ashok Bafna, Durga Mahesh Arikatla, Shyamsunder Prayagchand Rathi, Satyajit Sanjeev Deshmukh, Vishal Sinha, Anil Kumar Gopalapura Venkatesh, Rashmi Gupta, Rishabh Sharma, Yifeng Huang
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Patent number: 11954078Abstract: Examples described herein include virtualized file servers which may include cloned instances of the virtualized file server. Cloning a virtualized the server may allow for testing of new and/or revised features, disaster recovery plans, or other configurations while maintaining availability of the parent (e.g., source) virtualized file server.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Nutanix, Inc.Inventors: Kalpesh Ashok Bafna, Anil Kumar Gopalapura Venkatesh, Devyani Suryakant Kanada, Saurabh Tyagi, Vijaykumar Bellubbi, Mausumi Ranasingh, Rishabh Sharma
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Patent number: 11947952Abstract: 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 virtualized file server backup system configured to identify backup data, wherein the backup data comprises data stored on the virtual disks and VFS configuration information, and the first data is identified in accordance with a backup policy, send the backup data to one or more remote sites for storage, and, in response to detection of changes in the backup data, send the changes to the remote sites in accordance with a replication policy. The backup data may be identified based on a protection domain associated with the backup policy. The data stored on the VFS may include one or more storage objects. The storage objects may include shares, groups of shares, files, or directories.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Nutanix, Inc.Inventors: Anil Kumar Gopalapura Venkatesh, Richard James Sharpe, Durga Mahesh Arikatla, Kalpesh Ashok Bafna, Devyani Suryakant Kanada
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Publication number: 20240103985Abstract: Examples of systems described herein include a virtualized file servers. Examples of virtualized file servers described herein may support disaster recovery of the virtualized file server. Accordingly, examples of virtualized file servers may support metadata fixing procedures to update metadata in a recovery setting. Examples of virtualized file servers may support hypervisor-agnostic disaster recovery.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: Nutanix, Inc.Inventors: Anil Kumar Gopalapura Venkatesh, Devyani Suryakant Kanada, Kalpesh Ashok Bafna, Mausumi Ranasingh, Saurabh Tyagi, Vijaykumar Bellubbi
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Patent number: 11922203Abstract: Examples described herein include virtualized environments including a virtualized file server. Examples of file server virtual machine managers are described which may setup and/or configure file server virtual machines in accordance with a target number of connections and/or a target throughput for the virtualized file server. The virtualized file server may be scaled up, scaled down, scaled in, and/or scaled out.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Nutanix, Inc.Inventors: Kalpesh Ashok Bafna, Eric Wang, Anil Kumar Gopalapura Venkatesh, Manoj Premanand Naik, Yifeng Huang
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Patent number: 11922157Abstract: In one embodiment, a system for managing communication connections in a virtualization environment includes a plurality of host machines implementing a virtualization environment, wherein each of the host machines includes a hypervisor, at least one user virtual machine (user VM), and a distributed file server that includes file server virtual machines (FSVMs) and associated local storage devices. Each FSVM and associated local storage device are local to a corresponding one of the host machines, and the FSVMs conduct I/O transactions with their associated local storage devices based on I/O requests received from the user VMs. Each of the user VMs on each host machine sends each of its representative I/O requests to an FSVM that is selected by one or more of the FSVMs for each I/O request based on a lookup table that maps a storage item referenced by the I/O request to I/O the selected one of the FSVMs.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Nutanix, Inc.Inventors: Richard James Sharpe, Kalpesh Ashok Bafna, Durga Mahesh Arikatla, Shyamsunder Prayagchand Rathi, Satyajit Sanjeev Deshmukh, Vishal Sinha, Anil Kumar Gopalapura Venkatesh, Rashmi Gupta, Rishabh Sharma, Yifeng Huang
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Patent number: 11875176Abstract: Examples described herein include virtualized environments including a virtualized file server. Examples of file server virtual machine managers are described which may setup and/or configure file server virtual machines in accordance with a target number of connections and/or a target throughput for the virtualized file server. The virtualized file server may be scaled up, scaled down, scaled in, and/or scaled out.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2022Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Nutanix, Inc.Inventors: Kalpesh Ashok Bafna, Eric Wang, Anil Kumar Gopalapura Venkatesh, Manoj Premanand Naik, Yifeng Huang
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Patent number: 11775397Abstract: Examples of systems described herein include a virtualized file servers. Examples of virtualized file servers described herein may support disaster recovery of the virtualized file server. Accordingly, examples of virtualized file servers may support metadata fixing procedures to update metadata in a recovery setting. Examples of virtualized file servers may support hypervisor-agnostic disaster recovery.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2021Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Nutanix, Inc.Inventors: Anil Kumar Gopalapura Venkatesh, Devyani Suryakant Kanada, Kalpesh Ashok Bafna, Mausumi Ranasingh, Saurabh Tyagi, Vijaykumar Bellubbi
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Publication number: 20230281001Abstract: In one embodiment, a system for managing a virtualization environment comprises a plurality of host machines, one or more virtual disks comprising a plurality of storage devices, a virtualized file server (VFS) comprising a plurality of file server virtual machines (FSVMs), wherein each of the FSVMs is running on one of the host machines and conducts I/O transactions with the one or more virtual disks, and a virtualized file server self-healing system configured to identify one or more corrupt units of stored data at one or more levels of a storage hierarchy associated with the storage devices, wherein the levels comprise one or more of file level, filesystem level, and storage level, and when data corruption is detected, cause each FSVM on which at least a portion of the unit of stored data is located to recover the unit of stored data.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2023Publication date: September 7, 2023Applicant: Nutanix, Inc.Inventors: Anil Kumar Gopalapura Venkatesh, Rishabh Sharma, Richard James Sharpe, Shyamsunder Prayagchand Rathi, Durga Mahesh Arikatla
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Patent number: 11669320Abstract: In one embodiment, a system for managing a virtualization environment comprises a plurality of host machines, one or more virtual disks comprising a plurality of storage devices, a virtualized file server (VFS) comprising a plurality of file server virtual machines (FSVMs), wherein each of the FSVMs is running on one of the host machines and conducts I/O transactions with the one or more virtual disks, and a virtualized file server self-healing system configured to identify one or more corrupt units of stored data at one or more levels of a storage hierarchy associated with the storage devices, wherein the levels comprise one or more of file level, filesystem level, and storage level, and when data corruption is detected, cause each FSVM on which at least a portion of the unit of stored data is located to recover the unit of stored data.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2017Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Nutanix, Inc.Inventors: Anil Kumar Gopalapura Venkatesh, Rishabh Sharma, Richard James Sharpe, Shyamsunder Prayagchand Rathi, Durga Mahesh Arikatla
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Publication number: 20230056425Abstract: An example file server manager disclosed herein receives a registration for a distributed file server, where the distributed file server is hosted in a virtualization environment and includes a cluster of file server virtual machines configured to provide access to a file system. The file server manager further synchronizes metadata with the distributed file server, the metadata including identification of each of the file server virtual machines of the cluster of file server virtual machines, the metadata including information regarding the file system and receiving a management request for the distributed file server. The file server manager further formats the management request for the virtualization environment based on the metadata and utilizing information from the registration to access the distributed file server with the formatted management request.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Applicant: NUTANIX, INC.Inventors: Anil Kumar Gopalapura Venkatesh, Kalpesh Ashok Bafna, Manoj Premanand Naik, Mausumi Ranasingh
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Patent number: 11550557Abstract: In one embodiment, a system for managing communication connections in a virtualization environment includes a plurality of host machines implementing a virtualization environment, wherein each of the host machines includes a hypervisor, at least one user virtual machine (user VM), and a distributed file server that includes file server virtual machines (FSVMs) and associated local storage devices. Each FSVM and associated local storage device are local to a corresponding one of the host machines, and the FSVMs conduct I/O transactions with their associated local storage devices based on I/O requests received from the user VMs. Each of the user VMs on each host machine sends each of its respective I/O requests to an FSVM that is selected by one or more of the FSVMs for each I/O request based on a lookup table that maps a storage item referenced by the I/O request to the selected one of the FSVMs.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2017Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Nutanix, Inc.Inventors: Richard James Sharpe, Kalpesh Ashok Bafna, Durga Mahesh Arikatla, Shyamsunder Prayagchand Rathi, Satyajit Sanjeev Deshmukh, Vishal Sinha, Anil Kumar Gopalapura Venkatesh, Rashmi Gupta, Rishabh Sharma, Yifeng Huang
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Patent number: 11544049Abstract: 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 virtualized file server backup system configured to identify backup data, wherein the backup data comprises data stored on the virtual disks and VFS configuration information, and the first data is identified in accordance with a backup policy, send the backup data to one or more remote sites for storage, and, in response to detection of changes in the backup data, send the changes to the remote sites in accordance with a replication policy. The backup data may be identified based on a protection domain associated with the backup policy. The data stored on the VFS may include one or more storage objects. The storage objects may include shares, groups of shares, files, or directories.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2017Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: Nutanix, Inc.Inventors: Anil Kumar Gopalapura Venkatesh, Richard James Sharpe, Durga Mahesh Arikatla, Kalpesh Ashok Bafna, Devyani Suryakant Kanada
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Publication number: 20220350592Abstract: 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 virtualized file server backup system configured to identify backup data, wherein the backup data comprises data stored on the virtual disks and VFS configuration information, and the first data is identified in accordance with a backup policy, send the backup data to one or more remote sites for storage, and, in response to detection of changes in the backup data, send the changes to the remote sites in accordance with a replication policy. The backup data may be identified based on a protection domain associated with the backup policy. The data stored on the VFS may include one or more storage objects. The storage objects may include shares, groups of shares, files, or directories.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2022Publication date: November 3, 2022Applicant: Nutanix, Inc.Inventors: Anil Kumar Gopalapura Venkatesh, Richard James Sharpe, Durga Mahesh Arikatla, Kalpesh Ashok Bafna, Devyani Suryakant Kanada
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Publication number: 20220300335Abstract: This disclosure relates to scope-based lock management for shared resources of a distributed computing system. A scope-based lock manager may grant a request for a lock of a shared resource of the distributed computing system, where the lock request includes a scope of the lock and a target having the scope. The target may define entities able to access the shared resource when locked. The scope and target of the lock are stored at a lock database including scopes and targets associated with additional locks of additional shared resources of the distributed computing system. The scope based lock manager may determine when a computing node of the distributed computing system has failed and remove the lock from the lock database responsive to a determination that the target of the lock is hosted on the computing node.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2021Publication date: September 22, 2022Applicant: Nutanix, Inc.Inventors: Anil Kumar Gopalapura Venkatesh, Manoj Premanand Naik, Sanath Kumar Kalligundi Shivaswamy, Uday Kiran Jonnala
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Patent number: 11409510Abstract: In one embodiment, a system for managing communication connections in a virtualization environment includes a plurality of host machines implementing a virtualization environment, wherein each of the host machines includes a hypervisor, at least one user virtual machine (user VM), and a distributed file server that includes file server virtual machines (FSVMs) and associated local storage devices. Each FSVM and associated local storage device are local to a corresponding one of the host machines, and the FSVMs conduct I/O transactions with their associated local storage devices based on I/O requests received from the user VMs. Each of the user VMs on each host machine sends each of its respective I/O requests to an FSVM that is selected by one or more of the FSVMs for each I/O request based on a lookup table that maps a storage item referenced by the I/O request to the selected one of the FSVMs.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2017Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: Nutanix, Inc.Inventors: Richard James Sharpe, Kalpesh Ashok Bafna, Durga Mahesh Arikatla, Shyamsunder Prayagchand Rathi, Satyajit Sanjeev Deshmukh, Vishal Sinha, Anil Kumar Gopalapura Venkatesh, Rashmi Gupta, Rishabh Sharma, Yifeng Huang
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Publication number: 20220156107Abstract: Examples described herein include virtualized environments including a virtualized file server. Examples of file server virtual machine managers are described which may setup and/or configure file server virtual machines in accordance with a target number of connections and/or a target throughput for the virtualized file server. The virtualized file server may be scaled up, scaled down, scaled in, and/or scaled out.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2022Publication date: May 19, 2022Applicant: Nutanix, Inc.Inventors: Kalpesh Ashok Bafna, Eric Wang, Anil Kumar Gopalapura Venkatesh, Manoj Premanand Naik, Yifeng Huang
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Publication number: 20220147495Abstract: In one embodiment, a system for managing communication connections in a virtualization environment includes a plurality of host machines implementing a virtualization environment, wherein each of the host machines includes a hypervisor, at least one user virtual machine (user VM), and a distributed file server that includes file server virtual machines (FSVMs) and associated local storage devices. Each FSVM and associated local storage device are local to a corresponding one of the host machines, and the FSVMs conduct I/O transactions with their associated local storage devices based on I/O requests received from the user VMs. Each of the user VMs on each host machine sends each of its representative I/O requests to an FSVM that is selected by one or more of the FSVMs for each I/O request based on a lookup table that maps a storage item referenced by the I/O request to the selected one of the FSVMs.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2022Publication date: May 12, 2022Applicant: NUTANIX, INC.Inventors: RICHARD JAMES SHARPE, KALPESH ASHOK BAFNA, DURGA MAHESH ARIKATLA, SHYAMSUNDER PRAYAGCHAND RATHI, SATYAJIT SANJEEV DESHMUKH, VISHAL SINHA, ANIL KUMAR GOPALAPURA VENKATESH, RASHMI GUPTA, RISHABH SHARMA, YIFENG HUANG
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Patent number: 11294777Abstract: Examples of systems described herein include a virtualized file servers. Examples of virtualized file servers described herein may support disaster recovery of the virtualized file server. Accordingly, examples of virtualized file servers may support metadata fixing procedures to update metadata in a recovery setting. Examples of virtualized file servers may support hypervisor-agnostic disaster recovery.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2017Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: Nutanix, Inc.Inventors: Anil Kumar Gopalapura Venkatesh, Devyani Suryakant Kanada, Kalpesh Ashok Bafna, Mausumi Ranasingh, Saurabh Tyagi, Vijaykumar Bellubbi
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Patent number: 11288239Abstract: Examples described herein include virtualized file servers which may include cloned instances of the virtualized file server. Cloning a virtualized file server may allow for testing of new and/or revised features, disaster recovery plans, or other configurations while maintaining availability of the parent (e.g., source) virtualized file server.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2017Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: Nutanix, Inc.Inventors: Kalpesh Ashok Bafna, Anil Kumar Gopalapura Venkatesh, Devyani Suryakant Kanada, Saurabh Tyagi, Vijaykumar Bellubbi, Mausumi Ranasingh, Rishabh Sharma