Patent ID: 11922203
Assignee: NUTANIX, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 19:
20. At least one non-transitory computer readable medium encoded with instructions, which, when executed, cause a system to perform operations comprising:
presenting a single namespace of storage items by a virtualized distributed file system, the virtualized distributed file system including a cluster of host machines and at least one file server virtual machine (FSVM) on each host machine in the cluster of host machines, the storage items stored in a storage pool distributed across the cluster, the storage pool including an aggregation of local storage devices of the host machines;
processing, by the virtualized distributed file system, an access operation directed to one of the storage items in the single namespace, the one of the storage items stored in the storage pool; and
scaling out the virtualized distributed file system responsive to a load of the virtualized distributed file system, wherein the scaling out includes using a file server virtual machine (FSVM) manager to add an additional host machine to the cluster of host machines and using the FSVM manager to deploy an additional FSVM to the additional host machine.