System and method for catalog service

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11663241-B2
Application number	US-202016805581-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 28, 2020
Priority date	Oct 25, 2019
Publication date	May 30, 2023
Grant date	May 30, 2023

Abstract

An illustrative embodiment disclosed herein is an apparatus including a processor having programmed instructions to receive, from a client, a request to create a catalog item corresponding to a file, determine an identifier of a cluster manager associated with a cluster having available capacity, send, to the cluster manager, a source location of the catalog item, and cause the cluster manager to store the catalog item from the source location in the cluster.

First claim

What is claimed:

1. An apparatus including a processor and a memory to store programmed instructions, the instructions executed by the processor to:
receive a request to create a catalog item corresponding to a virtual machine or disk image, wherein the request is from a client or based on a policy;
generate a snapshot of the virtual machine or disk image;
determine a storage location derived from the request, wherein the storage location is in a cluster associated with a cluster manager, wherein the storage location is determined based on a distance between the cluster and a plurality of other clusters being less than a distance threshold;
send, to the cluster manager, a source location of the snapshot; and
cause the cluster manager to store the snapshot from the source location in the storage location.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , the memory to store further programmed instructions to:
send, to a scheduler, a second request to identify the cluster manager derived from the request; and
receive, from the scheduler, an identifier of the cluster manager.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the source location is a uniform resource locator (URL), the memory to store further programmed instructions to:
access a content server via the URL; and
download the virtual machine or disk image.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 , the memory to store further programmed instructions to:
store the virtual machine or disk image in a file repository; and
store a pointer to the virtual machine or disk image in the storage location.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 , the memory to store further programmed instructions to:
provision storage in an object store accessible by the cluster manager; and
store the file in the object store.

6. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the source location is a location of a first cluster, and the storage location is a second cluster different from the first cluster.

7. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the source location is a location of a public cloud, and the storage location is an on-premises cluster.

8. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising instructions stored thereon that, upon execution by a processor, cause the processor to:
receive a request to create a catalog item corresponding to a virtual machine or disk image, wherein the request is from a client or based on a policy;
generate a snapshot of the virtual machine or disk image;
determine a storage location derived from the request, wherein the storage location is in a cluster associated with a cluster manager, wherein the storage location is determined based on a distance between the cluster and a plurality of other clusters being less than a distance threshold;
send, to the cluster manager, a source location of the snapshot; and
cause the cluster manager to store the snapshot from the source location in the storage location.

9. The medium of claim 8 , comprising the instructions stored thereon that, upon execution by the processor, further cause the processor to:
send, to a scheduler, a second request to identify the cluster manager derived from the request; and
receive, from the scheduler, an identifier of the cluster manager.

10. The medium of claim 8 , wherein the source location is a uniform resource locator (URL), comprising the instructions stored thereon that, upon execution by the processor, further cause the processor to:
access a content server via the URL; and
download the virtual machine or disk image.

11. The medium of claim 8 , comprising the instructions stored thereon that, upon execution by the processor, further cause the processor to:
store the virtual machine or disk image in a file repository; and
store a pointer to the virtual machine or disk image in the storage location.

12. The medium of claim 8 , comprising the instructions stored thereon that, upon execution by the processor, further cause the processor to:
provision storage in an object store accessible by the cluster manager; and
store the file in the object store.

13. The medium of claim 8 , wherein the source location is a location of a first cluster, and the storage location is a second cluster different from the first cluster.

14. The medium of claim 8 , wherein the source location is a location of a public cloud, and the storage location is an on-premises cluster.

15. A computer-implemented method comprising:
receiving, by a processor, a request to create a catalog item corresponding to a virtual machine or disk image, wherein the request is from a client or based on a policy;
generating a snapshot of the virtual machine or disk image;
determining, by the processor, a storage location derived from the request, wherein the storage location is in a cluster associated with a cluster manager, wherein the storage location is determined based on a distance between the cluster and a plurality of other clusters being less than a distance threshold;
sending, by the processor and to the cluster manager, a source location of the snapshot; and
causing, by the processor, the cluster manager to store the snapshot from the source location in the storage location.

16. The method of claim 15 , further comprising:
sending, to a scheduler, a second request to identify the cluster manager derived from the request; and
receiving, from the scheduler, an identifier of the cluster manager.

17. The method of claim 15 , wherein the source location is a uniform resource locator (URL), the method further comprising:
accessing a content server via the URL; and
downloading the virtual machine or disk image.

18. The method of claim 15 , further comprising:
storing the virtual machine or disk image in a file repository; and
storing a pointer to the virtual machine or disk image in the storage location.

19. The method of claim 15 , further comprising:
provisioning storage in an object store accessible by the cluster manager; and
storing the file in the object store.

20. The method of claim 15 , wherein the source location is a location of a first cluster, and the storage location is a second cluster different from the first cluster.

21. The method of claim 15 , wherein the source location is a location of a public cloud, and the storage location is an on-premises cluster.

Assignees

• Nutanix Inc

Inventors

• Karlekar Chaitanya Sudhir
• Kousoulis Constantine
• Schwenz Robert William
• Kumar Shashank Bipin
• Kasi Suraj Nagaraja

Classifications

• G06F16/13

  File access structures, e.g. distributed indices (arrangements of input from, or output to, record carriers G06F3/06) · CPC title

• G06F16/188 Primary

  Virtual file systems · CPC title

• G06F16/285 Primary

  Clustering or classification · CPC title

• G06F2009/45583

  Memory management, e.g. access or allocation · CPC title

• G06F9/45558

  Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects · CPC title