Patent ID: 11966729
Assignee: NUTANIX, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 7:
8. At least one non-transitory computer readable media encoded with instructions which, when executed, cause a computing system to perform actions comprising:
deploy, in response to a deployment command, at least one file server virtual machine (FSVM) one each host machine of a plurality of host machines, the plurality of host machines utilizing a storage pool, wherein FSVMs on the plurality of host machines form at least a portion of a virtualized file server (VFS), wherein the storage pool includes storage devices of the plurality of host machines, and wherein a first FSVM of the FSVMs has a network address,
said deploy action utilizing at least one of a respective amount of memory resources or a respective amount of compute resources of a first host machine for the first FSVM;
said deploy action includes perform a deployment operation having a deployment parameter including a number of the FSVMs;
create a file share from a storage capacity of the storage pool as a portion of a namespace implemented by the VFS, wherein the namespace is implemented across the storage pool, and wherein the file share includes a name and storage space quota of the storage capacity; and
associate the first FSVM with the file share.