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

Claim 14:
15. One or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media, the media comprising instructions for performing operations comprising:
replacing an existing host machine of a plurality of existing host machines with a new host machine, the new host machine including one or more new local storage devices, the plurality of existing host machines including a virtualized file server with an existing file server virtual machine (FSVM) configured to execute on each existing host machine, the virtualized file server configured to implement a namespace of storage items using local storage devices of the plurality of existing host machines to aggregate storage space of the local storage devices and form a storage pool distributed across the plurality of existing host machines;
deploying a new FSVM for the virtualized file server on the new host machine; and
placing 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.