US 11,720,271 B2
Direct access storage for persistent services in a virtualized computing system
Mansi Shah, San Jose, CA (US); Subramanian Neelakantan, Bangalore (IN); Christian Dickmann, Kassel (DE); and Yu Wu, Shanghai (CN)
Assigned to VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US)
Filed by VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 27, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/81,793.
Prior Publication US 2022/0083248 A1, Mar. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 9/455 (2018.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 9/54 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/0644 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/067 (2013.01); G06F 3/0664 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 9/547 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45579 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A virtualized computing system, comprising:
a cluster of hosts having a virtualization layer executing thereon and configured to manage virtual machines (VMs), the cluster of hosts comprising hardware platforms having random access memories (RAMs) and a plurality of local storage devices, the plurality of local storage devices configured as a virtual storage area network;
another local storage device in a first host of the cluster, the other local storage device configured as direct-attach storage and not being one of the plurality of local storage devices; and
an orchestration control plane, integrated with the virtualization layer, the orchestration control plane including a master server managing state of the orchestration control plane, the state including objects representing the hosts and the VMs, the orchestration control plane deploying a persistent application executing on a first VM of the VMs, the persistent application storing persistent data on the direct-attach storage.