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

Claim 16:
17. An apparatus comprising:
a node having a processor; and
a source virtual disk (vdisk) configured to service input/output (I/O) accesses across source and destination storage containers of the node, the processor configured to migrate the vdisk across the storage containers by executing program instructions to:
organize a storage pool of storage devices coupled to a plurality of nodes into source and destination storage containers configured to store one or more virtual disks (vdisks);
hydrate 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;
create 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
redirect 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.