Patent ID: 11947952
Assignee: NUTANIX, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 16:
17. A method comprising:
adding a file share to a protection domain, wherein the file share is stored in a storage pool, and wherein the storage pool is configured to be accessed by multiple host machines, each of the multiple host machines hosting a respective file server virtual machine (FSVM) of a virtualized file server (VFS), and wherein the storage pool includes a local storage device provided by at least one of the multiple host machines; and
adding configuration information for at least one of the FSVMs to the protection domain, wherein the FSVM is configured to be hosted by at least one of the multiple host machines, and wherein the FSVM is configured to process an access request from a client to access the file share.