Invention Grant
- Patent Title: System and method for detection of underprovisioning of memory in virtual machines
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Application No.: US15923165Application Date: 2018-03-16
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Publication No.: US10691481B2Publication Date: 2020-06-23
- Inventor: Miao Cui , Malcolm Crossley , Gaurav Poothia
- Applicant: Nutanix, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: NUTANIX, INC.
- Current Assignee: NUTANIX, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: Foley & Lardner LLP
- Main IPC: G06F9/455
- IPC: G06F9/455 ; G06F9/50 ; G06F12/1009

Abstract:
A system and method include determining underprovisioning of a guest physical memory of a virtual machine running on a computing node. The node includes hardware resources that are mapped the guest physical memory by a hypervisor. The hypervisor receives page fault information from the virtual machine based on page faults in the virtual machine. The hypervisor generates a table that includes virtual memory address-process indicator pair entries and corresponding page fault numbers. The hypervisor removes those entries that have a corresponding page fault number that is less than a first threshold value. The hypervisor determines a size of a revolving memory based on the number of remaining entries and a page size of the guest physical memory. If the revolving memory size is less than a second threshold value in relation to the allocated size of the guest physical memory, the hypervisor indicates underprovisioning of the guest physical memory.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190286465A1 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTION OF UNDERPROVISIONING OF MEMORY IN VIRTUAL MACHINES Public/Granted day:2019-09-19
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