ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,879, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Nutanix Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Technique for improving oplog flushing" was invented by Abhineet Pandey (Sangrur, India), Rohit Jain (New Delhi) and Shubham Shukla (Bhopal, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved flushing technique controls a draining speed of data from a temporary storage tier to a backend storage tier of a node so that draining logic does not overwhelm an input/output (I/O) workload that is serviced by the storage tiers. Illustratively, the temporary storage tier is a persistent write buffer embodied as an operations log (oplog) and the backend storage tier is pers...