Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Mechanism for virtual logical volume management
- Patent Title (中): 虚拟逻辑卷管理机制
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Application No.: US12473854Application Date: 2009-05-28
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Publication No.: US08151033B2Publication Date: 2012-04-03
- Inventor: Steven Dake
- Applicant: Steven Dake
- Applicant Address: US NC Raleigh
- Assignee: Red Hat, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Red Hat, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US NC Raleigh
- Agency: Lowenstein Sandler PC
- Main IPC: G06F12/00
- IPC: G06F12/00

Abstract:
In one embodiment, a mechanism for virtual logical volume management is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for virtual logical volume management includes writing, by a virtual machine (VM) host server computing device, a control block to each of a plurality of network-capable physical storage devices and mapping, by the VM host server computing device, physical storage blocks of the plurality of network-capable physical storage devices to virtual storage blocks of a virtual storage pool by associating the physical storage blocks with the virtual storage blocks in the control block of the network-capable physical storage device housing the physical storage blocks being mapped. Furthermore, the method includes assigning, by the VM host server computing device, a block range of the virtual storage blocks to a VM allocated by the VM host server computing device by writing a unique identifier (ID) of the VM to one or more entries in the control block having the physical storage blocks associated with the block range of the virtual storage blocks assigned to the VM.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100306445A1 Mechanism for Virtual Logical Volume Management Public/Granted day:2010-12-02
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