公开(公告)号：US20210019168A1

公开(公告)日：2021-01-21

申请号：US16698994

申请日：2019-11-28

Applicant: VMWARE, INC.

Inventor： Marcos Aguilera ,  Keerthi Kumar ,  Pramod Kumar ,  Arun Ramanathan ,  Pratap Subrahmanyam ,  Sairam Veeraswamy ,  Rajesh Venkatasubramanian ,  Manish Mishra

IPC: G06F9/455 ,  G06F3/06 ,  G06F12/1009 ,  G06F16/907

Abstract: The disclosure provides an approach for creating a pool of memory out of local memories of host machines, and providing that pool for the hosts to use. The pool is managed by a controller that keeps track of memory usage and allocated memory among hosts. The controller allocates or reclaims memory between hosts, as needed by the hosts. Memory allocated from a second host to a first host may then be divided into smaller portions by the first host, and further allocated to virtual machines executing within the first host.

公开(公告)号：US11334380B2

公开(公告)日：2022-05-17

申请号：US16698994

申请日：2019-11-28

Applicant: VMWARE, INC.

Inventor： Marcos Aguilera ,  Keerthi Kumar ,  Pramod Kumar ,  Arun Ramanathan ,  Pratap Subrahmanyam ,  Sairam Veeraswamy ,  Rajesh Venkatasubramanian ,  Manish Mishra

IPC: G06F9/46 ,  G06F9/455 ,  G06F3/06 ,  G06F16/907 ,  G06F12/1009

Abstract: The disclosure provides an approach for creating a pool of memory out of local memories of host machines, and providing that pool for the hosts to use. The pool is managed by a controller that keeps track of memory usage and allocated memory among hosts. The controller allocates or reclaims memory between hosts, as needed by the hosts. Memory allocated from a second host to a first host may then be divided into smaller portions by the first host, and further allocated to virtual machines executing within the first host.