Patent ID: 9426218
Filing Date: 2016-08-23
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: establishing a network connection between a virtual storage appliance (VSA) in a virtual machine and a storage server system, wherein the virtual machine runs on a computing device remote to the storage server system, wherein the virtual machine isolates operations of the VSA from other processing activities on the computing device and implements the VSA in an operating system that is different from an operating system of the computing device; providing access to a second shared namespace of data at the VSA over the network connection, wherein the second shared namespace is a policy defined subset of a first shared namespace of the storage server system, wherein data in the second shared namespace is accessible at the storage server system by at least one other computing device communicatively coupled to the storage server system, wherein the data in the second shared namespace at the VSA is replicated to create a local copy at the computing device; and synchronizing changes to the local copy with the data in the second shared namespace at the storage server system.