Patent ID: 11954078
Assignee: NUTANIX, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 10:
11. A system comprising:
a storage pool including storage devices distributed across a computing node cluster;
a file system virtual machine (FSVM) of a virtualized file server (VFS), the VFS including a plurality of FSVMs in addition to the FSVM, the FSVM hosted on a first computing node of the computing node cluster, wherein the plurality of FSVMs are configured to present a namespace of storage items, the namespace implemented using the storage pool, the storage pool including local storage devices of the computing node cluster;
a clone of the FSVM (cloned FSVM) hosted on a second computing node of the computing node cluster; and
metadata for shared access to a particular storage item of the namespace of storage items by the FSVM and the cloned FSVM, wherein the FSVM is configured to receive an access request for the particular storage item.