Patent ID: 11880605
Assignee: NETAPP, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 6:
7. A non-transitory machine readable medium storing instructions, which when executed by a processing resource of a computer system, cause a central service running on the computer system to:
discover one or more local ephemeral storage devices associated with a virtual machine (VM) in a cloud environment; and
facilitate sharing of storage space within the one or more local ephemeral storage devices among a plurality of virtual storage appliances that are created on the VM by, responsive to receipt of a request by a new virtual storage appliance of the plurality of virtual storage appliances:
allocating an amount of the shared storage space within the one or more local ephemeral storage devices for use by the new virtual storage appliance as a victim cache of the new virtual storage appliance; and
returning, to the new virtual storage appliance, information regarding the allocated amount of the shared storage space within the one or more local ephemeral storage devices.