Patent ID: 11966730
Assignee: NUTANIX, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 7:
8. A system comprising:
a plurality of existing host machines, the plurality of existing host machines including a virtualized file server, the virtualized file server comprising:
existing file server virtual machines (FSVMs) configured to execute on each of the existing host machines; and
a storage pool distributed across the plurality of existing host machines, wherein the virtualized file server is configured to implement a namespace of storage items using local storage devices of the existing host machines to aggregate storage space of the local storage devices; and
a deployment system configured to replace an existing host machine of the plurality of existing host machines with a new host machine, the new host machine including one or more new local storage devices, the deployment system further configured to deploy a new FSVM for the virtualized file server on the new host machine; and
wherein the virtualized file server is configured to place one or more storage items of the storage pool on the one or more new local storage devices of the new host machine based on an amount of storage space available on the one or more new local storage devices, wherein the new FSVM is configured to process an access operation directed to the one or more storage items on the one or more new local storage devices of the storage pool.