Patent ID: 11954372
Assignee: NUTANIX, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method of virtual disk (vdisk) migration comprising:
organizing a storage pool of storage devices coupled to nodes into source and destination storage containers configured to store one or more virtual disks (vdisks);
hydrating data from a source vdisk on the source storage container having a first storage policy to a target vdisk on the destination storage container having a second storage policy different from the first storage policy;
creating a live vdisk on the destination storage container as a mutable point-in-time copy of the target vdisk, the live vdisk configured to service an input/output (I/O) access to the data; and
redirecting servicing of the I/O access from the source vdisk to the live vdisk without interrupting the servicing of the I/O access during the vdisk migration.