Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method of providing distributed storage services to a host computer from a network interface card (NIC) of the host computer. At the NIC, the method accesses a set of one or more external storages operating outside of the host computer through a shared port of the NIC that is not only used to access the set of external storages but also for forwarding packets not related to an external storage. In some embodiments, the method accesses the external storage set by using a network fabric storage driver that employs a network fabric storage protocol to access the external storage set. The method presents the external storage as a local storage of the host computer to a set of programs executing on the host computer. In some embodiments, the method presents the local storage by using a storage emulation layer on the NIC to create a local storage construct that presents the set of external storages as a local storage of the host computer.

Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method of providing distributed storage services to a host computer from a network interface card (NIC) of the host computer. At the NIC, the method accesses a set of one or more external storages operating outside of the host computer through a shared port of the NIC that is not only used to access the set of external storages but also for forwarding packets not related to an external storage. In some embodiments, the method accesses the external storage set by using a network fabric storage driver that employs a network fabric storage protocol to access the external storage set. The method presents the external storage as a local storage of the host computer to a set of programs executing on the host computer. In some embodiments, the method presents the local storage by using a storage emulation layer on the NIC to create a local storage construct that presents the set of external storages as a local storage of the host computer.

Abstract: The technology disclosed herein enables a guest executing in a host of a host computing system to access an IHMM device of the host computing system. In a particular embodiment, a method provides, in the host, providing a virtualized IHMM device to a guest IHMM device driver in the guest and exchanging IHMM information between the guest IHMM device driver and the virtualized IHMM device. The method further provides, translating the IHMM information between the virtualized IHMM device and a host IHMM device driver on the host. The host IHMM device driver interacts with the host IHMM device based on the IHMM information.

Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method of providing distributed storage services to a host computer from a network interface card (NIC) of the host computer. At the NIC, the method accesses a set of one or more external storages operating outside of the host computer through a shared port of the NIC that is not only used to access the set of external storages but also for forwarding packets not related to an external storage. In some embodiments, the method accesses the external storage set by using a network fabric storage driver that employs a network fabric storage protocol to access the external storage set. The method presents the external storage as a local storage of the host computer to a set of programs executing on the host computer. In some embodiments, the method presents the local storage by using a storage emulation layer on the NIC to create a local storage construct that presents the set of external storages as a local storage of the host computer.

Abstract: The technology disclosed herein enables a guest executing in a host of a host computing system to access an IHMM device of the host computing system. In a particular embodiment, a method provides, in the host, providing a virtualized IHMM device to a guest IHMM device driver in the guest and exchanging IHMM information between the guest IHMM device driver and the virtualized IHMM device. The method further provides, translating the IHMM information between the virtualized IHMM device and a host IHMM device driver on the host. The host IHMM device driver interacts with the host IHMM device based on the IHMM information.