Emulating a local storage by accessing an external storage through a shared port of a NIC
J Kim, C Fleiner, M Fleischmann, SA Cherian… - US Patent …, 2023 - Google Patents
2021-02-05 Assigned to VMWARE, INC. reassignment VMWARE, INC. ASSIGNMENT OF
ASSIGNORS INTEREST (SEE DOCUMENT FOR DETAILS). Assignors: FLEINER …
ASSIGNORS INTEREST (SEE DOCUMENT FOR DETAILS). Assignors: FLEINER …
Using machine executing on a NIC to access a third party storage not supported by a NIC or host
J Kim, C Fleiner, M Fleischmann, AP Gondi… - US Patent …, 2023 - Google Patents
US11593278B2 - Using machine executing on a NIC to access a third party storage not
supported by a NIC or host - Google Patents US11593278B2 - Using machine executing on a …
supported by a NIC or host - Google Patents US11593278B2 - Using machine executing on a …
Accessing an external storage through a NIC
SA Cherian, AP Gondi, AK Pentyala… - US Patent …, 2023 - Google Patents
Some embodiments provide a method of providing distributed storage services to a host
computer from a network interface card (MC) of the host computer. At the NIC, the method …
computer from a network interface card (MC) of the host computer. At the NIC, the method …
Hardware acceleration techniques using flow selection
G Aditi, S Murali - US Patent 11,962,518, 2024 - Google Patents
In some embodiments, a method receives a packet for a flow associated with a workload.
Based on an indicator for the flow, the method determines whether the flow corresponds to …
Based on an indicator for the flow, the method determines whether the flow corresponds to …
Accessing multiple external storages to present an emulated local storage through a NIC
J Kim, C Fleiner, M Fleischmann, SA Cherian… - US Patent …, 2023 - Google Patents
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 …
computer from a network interface card (NIC) of the host computer. At the NIC, the method …
Using a NIC as a network accelerator to allow VM access to an external storage via a PF module, bus, and VF module
SA Cherian, AP Gondi, J Vantipalli… - US Patent …, 2023 - Google Patents
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 …
computer from a network interface card (NIC) of the host computer. At the NIC, the method …
Unified management of virtual machines and bare metal computers
RB Voltz - US Patent 11,829,793, 2023 - Google Patents
Some embodiments provide a method for a compute manager that manages (i) virtual
machines executing on host computers and (ii) physical computers. The method uses a first …
machines executing on host computers and (ii) physical computers. The method uses a first …
Flow processing offload using virtual port identifiers
BS Ang, W Jiang, G Yang, J Heo, S Murali - US Patent 11,606,310, 2023 - Google Patents
US11606310B2 - Flow processing offload using virtual port identifiers - Google Patents
US11606310B2 - Flow processing offload using virtual port identifiers - Google Patents Flow …
US11606310B2 - Flow processing offload using virtual port identifiers - Google Patents Flow …
Packet processing with hardware offload units
Y Wang, BS Ang, G Yang, W Jiang - US Patent 12,021,759, 2024 - Google Patents
Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for configuring multiple hardware
offload units of a host computer to perform operations on packets associated with machines …
offload units of a host computer to perform operations on packets associated with machines …
Using physical and virtual functions associated with a NIC to access an external storage through network fabric driver
SA Cherian, AP Gondi, H Kalluri, SV Acharya… - US Patent …, 2023 - Google Patents
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 …
computer from a network interface card (NIC) of the host computer. At the NIC, the method …