US Patent Issued to VMware on Sept. 2 for "Direct access storage for persistent services in a virtualized computing system" (American, Chinese, German, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,740, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Direct access storage for persistent services in a virtualized computing system" was invented by Mansi Shah (San Jose, Calif.), Subramanian Neelakantan (Bangalore, India), Christian Dickmann (Kassel, Germany) and Yu Wu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example virtualized computing system includes a cluster of hosts having a virtualization layer executing thereon and configured to manage virtual machines (VMs); a local storage device in a first host of the cluster, the local storage device configured as direct-attach storage; and an orchestration contr...