System and method for hypervisor agnostic services

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11061708-B2
Application number	US-201816105866-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 20, 2018
Priority date	Aug 20, 2018
Publication date	Jul 13, 2021
Grant date	Jul 13, 2021

Abstract

A system and method can include requesting, by a network agent in a virtual machine in a hypervisor-attached infrastructure, a first identifier of a first resource device. The method can include comparing the first identifier to a plurality of known identifiers. The method can include determining a first location of the first resource device in response to matching the first identifier to one of the plurality of known identifiers. The method can include requesting a second identifier of a second resource device. The method can include determining a second location of the second resource device in response to the second identifier being different from each of the plurality of known identifiers. The second location can be different than the first location.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
receiving, by a virtual machine (VM) in a first server, a request to replicate data stored in the first server to any resource device in a second node separate from the first server;
receiving, by the VM and via a virtual switch in the first server, the data from a source resource device in the first server, wherein the virtual switch exposes the source resource device through a network protocol and a network endpoint;
receiving from a network agent in the VM a first identifier of a first resource device in the second node;
selecting, by the VM, the first resource device using the first identifier; and
sending the data, by the VM and via the virtual switch, to the first resource device.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
comparing the first identifier of the first resource device to a plurality of known identifiers associated with the first server; and
determining that the first identifier of the first resource device is different from each of the plurality of known identifiers.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining an internal facing internet-protocol address and port for the first resource device; and
translating the internal facing internet-protocol address and port to a public internet-protocol address and port.

4. The method of claim 3 , further comprising identifying the public internet-protocol address and port at an index corresponding to the internal facing internet-protocol address and port.

5. The method of claim 3 , further comprising translating the internal facing internet-protocol address and port to the public internet-protocol address and port responsive to receiving an availability zone associated with the first resource device.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the server is a hypervisor-attached infrastructure is owned by a client and the second node is part of a network-attached infrastructure is owned by a provider.

7. A first server comprising a virtual machine that:
receives a request to replicate data stored on the first server to any resource device in a second node separate from the first server;
receives, via a virtual switch in the first server, the data from a source resource device in the first server, wherein the virtual switch exposes the source resource device through a network protocol and a network endpoint;
receives from a network agent a first identifier of a first resource device in the second node;
selects the first resource device using the first identifier; and
sends, via the virtual switch, the data to the first resource device.

8. The first server of claim 7 , the virtual machine:
compares the first identifier of the first resource device to a plurality of known identifiers associated with the first server; and
determines that the first identifier of the first resource device is different from each of the plurality of known identifiers.

9. The first server of claim 7 , the virtual machine:
determines an internal facing internet-protocol address and port for the first resource device; and
translates the internal facing internet-protocol address and port to a public internet-protocol address and port.

10. The first server of claim 9 , the virtual machine identifies the public internet-protocol address and port at an index corresponding to the internal facing internet-protocol address and port.

11. The first server of claim 9 , the virtual machine translates the internal facing internet-protocol address and port to the public internet-protocol address and port responsive to receiving an availability zone associated with the first resource device.

12. The first server of claim 7 , wherein the first server is a hypervisor-attached infrastructure is owned by a client and the second node is part of a network-attached infrastructure is owned by a provider.

13. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions stored thereon that, upon execution by one or more processors associated with a virtual machine in a first server, causes the virtual machine to perform operations comprising:
receiving a request to replicate data stored on the first server to any resource device in a second node separate from the first server;
receiving the data from a source resource device in the first server;
receiving from a network agent a first identifier of a first resource device in the second node;
selecting the first resource device using the first identifier; and
sending the data to the first resource device.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 13 , the operations further comprising:
comparing the first identifier of the first resource device to a plurality of known identifiers associated with the first server; and
determining that the first identifier of the first resource device is different from each of the plurality of known identifiers.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 13 , the operations further comprising:
determining an internal facing internet-protocol address and port for the first resource device; and
translating the internal facing internet-protocol address and port to a public internet-protocol address and port.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15 , further comprising translating the internal facing internet-protocol address and port to the public internet-protocol address and port responsive to receiving an availability zone associated with the first resource device.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 13 , wherein the first server is a hypervisor-attached infrastructure is owned by a client and the second node is part of a network-attached infrastructure is owned by a provider.

Assignees

• Nutanix Inc

Inventors

• Ramachandran Partha
• Rekhi Ritesh
• Ramasubramanian Srini
• Smith Gregory A

Classifications

• G06F9/45558 Primary

  Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects · CPC title

• G06F2009/45595

  Network integration; Enabling network access in virtual machine instances · CPC title

• H04L49/70

  Virtual switches · CPC title

• G06F2009/45579

  I/O management, e.g. providing access to device drivers or storage · CPC title