System and method for supporting live migration of virtual machines in a virtualization environment

BD Johnsen, WL Guay - US Patent 9,450,885, 2016‏ - Google Patents
A system and method can support virtual machine live migration in a network. A virtual
switch can be associated with a plurality of virtual functions (VFs), and wherein each said …

System and method for providing a scalable signaling mechanism for virtual machine migration in a middleware machine environment

WL Guay, BD Johnsen - US Patent 9,311,122, 2016‏ - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A system and method can Support a signaling method in a virtualization
environment. The management domain on one or more physical servers can be provided …

Method and apparatus for on-disk deduplication metadata for a deduplication file system

FE Sarab, V Auradkar - US Patent 10,255,287, 2019‏ - Google Patents
A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for maintaining deduplication metadata on disk
separate from an in-memory deduplication file system for a deduplication computing system …

Gang migration of virtual machines using cluster-wide deduplication

K Gopalan, U Deshpande - US Patent 9,823,842, 2017‏ - Google Patents
Gang migration refers to the simultaneous live migration of multiple Virtual Machines (VMs)
from one set of physical machines to another in response to events such as load spikes and …

System and method for supporting live migration of virtual machines based on an extended host channel adaptor (hca) model

BD Johnsen, WL Guay - US Patent 9,432,304, 2016‏ - Google Patents
A system and method can support virtual machine live migration in a network. A fabric
adaptor can be associated with a plurality of virtual host channel adapters (vHCAs), and …

Multi-tenant memory service for memory pool architectures

JA Bivens, KK Das, M Li, R Mahindru… - US Patent …, 2017‏ - Google Patents
A memory management service occupies a configurable portion of an overall memory
system in a disaggregate compute environment. The service provides optimized data …

Method and apparatus for providing a unified resource view of multiple virtual machines

MA Alicherry, A Anand, SP Chandrabose - US Patent 9,548,884, 2017‏ - Google Patents
US9548884B2 - Method and apparatus for providing a unified resource view of multiple
virtual machines - Google Patents US9548884B2 - Method and apparatus for providing a …

Network testbed creation and validation

TQ Thai, V Urias, BP Van Leeuwen, KK Watts… - US Patent …, 2017‏ - Google Patents
Portions of a network environment (eg, hardware, Soft ware, and networking components)
may be replicated in order to validate runtime aspects of the design and/or resources of the …

Compute Cluster Load Balancing Based on Memory Page Contents

J Kelly, Y Jiang - US Patent App. 14/789,852, 2017‏ - Google Patents
BACKGROUND 0002. As the value and use of information continues to increase, individuals
and businesses seek additional ways to process and store information. One option is an …

System and method for providing an infiniband SR-IOV vSwitch architecture for a high performance cloud computing environment

E Tasoulas, BD Johnsen, EG Gran - US Patent 9,990,221, 2018‏ - Google Patents
Abstract Systems and methods are provided for implementing a Virtual Switch (vSwitch)
architecture that supports transparent virtualization and live migration. In an embodiment, a …