Patents by Inventor Devyani Suryakant Kanada
Devyani Suryakant Kanada 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: 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: 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: 20230289170Abstract: In one embodiment, a system for managing a virtualization environment includes host machines implementing a virtualization environment, a plurality of clusters of the host machines, a virtualized file server (VFS) comprising a plurality of file server virtual machines (FSVMs), and a VFS cluster manager (CM) configured to distribute storage items among the clusters and receive cluster storage statistics for one or more shares of the VFS. The CM is further configured to, in response to a request from a first FSVM to identify a storage location for a storage item, identify a cluster at which the storage item is to be located based on the cluster storage statistics, identify a second FSVM at which the storage item is to be located based on compute usage statistics of one or more FSVMs in the identified cluster, and send an address of the second FSVM to the first FSVM.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2022Publication date: September 14, 2023Applicant: Nutanix, Inc.Inventors: Richard James Sharpe, Durga Mahesh Arikatla, Kalpesh Ashok Bafna, Satyajit Sanjeev Deshmukh, Shyamsunder Prayagchand Rathi, Vishal Sinha, Devyani Suryakant Kanada
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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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Patent number: 11537384Abstract: In one embodiment, a system for managing a virtualization environment includes host machines implementing a virtualization environment, a plurality of clusters of the host machines, a virtualized file server (VFS) comprising a plurality of file server virtual machines (FSVMs), and a VFS cluster manager (CM) configured to distribute storage items among the clusters and receive cluster storage statistics for one or more shares of the VFS. The CM is further configured to, in response to a request from a first FSVM to identify a storage location for a storage item, identify a cluster at which the storage item is to be located based on the cluster storage statistics, identify a second FSVM at which the storage item is to be located based on compute usage statistics of one or more FSVMs in the identified cluster, and send an address of the second FSVM to the first FSVM.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2020Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: Nutanix, Inc.Inventors: Richard James Sharpe, Durga Mahesh Arikatla, Kalpesh Ashok Bafna, Satyajit Sanjeev Deshmukh, Shyamsunder Prayagchand Rathi, Vishal Sinha, 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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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
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Publication number: 20210406136Abstract: 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: April 30, 2021Publication date: December 30, 2021Applicant: 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: 20210365257Abstract: 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.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2021Publication date: November 25, 2021Applicant: 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: 20210349859Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2021Publication date: November 11, 2021Applicant: 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: 11048595Abstract: 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: June 29, 2021Assignee: 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: 20210141630Abstract: In one embodiment, a system for managing a virtualization environment includes host machines implementing a virtualization environment, a plurality of clusters of the host machines, a virtualized file server (VFS) comprising a plurality of file server virtual machines (FSVMs), and a VFS cluster manager (CM) configured to distribute storage items among the clusters and receive cluster storage statistics for one or more shares of the VFS. The CM is further configured to, in response to a request from a first FSVM to identify a storage location for a storage item, identify a cluster at which the storage item is to be located based on the cluster storage statistics, identify a second FSVM at which the storage item is to be located based on compute usage statistics of one or more FSVMs in the identified cluster, and send an address of the second FSVM to the first FSVM.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2020Publication date: May 13, 2021Applicant: Nutanix, Inc.Inventors: Richard James Sharpe, Durga Mahesh Arikatla, Kalpesh Ashok Bafna, Satyajit Sanjeev Deshmukh, Shyamsunder Prayagchand Rathi, Vishal Sinha, Devyani Suryakant Kanada
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Patent number: 10949192Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2018Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: Nutanix, Inc.Inventors: Anil Kumar Gopalapura Venkatesh, Richard James Sharpe, Durga Mahesh Arikatla, Kalpesh Ashok Bafna, Devyani Suryakant Kanada
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Patent number: 10831465Abstract: In one embodiment, a system for managing a virtualization environment includes host machines implementing a virtualization environment, a plurality of clusters of the host machines, a virtualized file server (VFS) comprising a plurality of file server virtual machines (FSVMs), and a VFS cluster manager (CM) configured to distribute storage items among the clusters and receive cluster storage statistics for one or more shares of the VFS. The CM is further configured to, in response to a request from a first FSVM to identify a storage location for a storage item, identify a cluster at which the storage item is to be located based on the cluster storage statistics, identify a second FSVM at which the storage item is to be located based on compute usage statistics of one or more FSVMs in the identified cluster, and send an address of the second FSVM to the first FSVM.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2017Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: Nutanix, Inc.Inventors: Richard James Sharpe, Durga Mahesh Arikatla, Kalpesh Ashok Bafna, Satyajit Sanjeev Deshmukh, Shyamsunder Prayagchand Rathi, Vishal Sinha, Devyani Suryakant Kanada
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Patent number: 10728090Abstract: Examples of systems described herein include a file server virtual machine of a virtualized file server configured to communicate with a user virtual machine over a first virtual network to transfer data and to communicate with a controller virtual machine over a second virtual network to transfer control information.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2017Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: Nutanix, Inc.Inventors: Satyajit Sanjeev Deshmukh, Devyani Suryakant Kanada, Anil Kumar Gopalapura Venkatesh, Kalpesh Ashok Bafna, Rishabh Sharma, Mausumi Ranasingh, Simon Martin Mijolovic
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Patent number: 10719307Abstract: 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, wherein the VFS is configured to detect a failure of one of the FSVMs on a first one of the host machines, wherein the first host machine is located within a first block of host machines. The VFS may then identify a failover path to a second FSVM. For each storage resource associated with the first FSVM, the VFS may migrate the storage resource to the second FSVM.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2017Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignee: Nutanix, Inc.Inventors: Devyani Suryakant Kanada, Richard James Sharpe, Durga Mahesh Arikatla, Satyajit Sanjeev Deshmukh
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Patent number: 10496391Abstract: 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, wherein the VFS is configured to detect a failure of one of the FSVMs on a first one of the host machines, wherein the first host machine is located within a first block of host machines. The VFS may then identify a failover path to a second FSVM. For each storage resource associated with the first FSVM, the VFS may migrate the storage resource to the second FSVM.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2017Date of Patent: December 3, 2019Assignee: Nutanix, Inc.Inventors: Devyani Suryakant Kanada, Richard James Sharpe, Durga Mahesh Arikatla, Satyajit Sanjeev Deshmukh