US Patent Issued to Dell Products on March 11 for "Orchestrated node removal to reduce cluster capacity in a clustered file system" (Washington, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,268, issued on March 11, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Orchestrated node removal to reduce cluster capacity in a clustered file system" was invented by Ryan Libby (Seattle), Raymond Ramsden (Seattle), Jahanvi Bishnoi (Seattle) and Steven Soumpholphakdy (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology described herein is directed towards automating/orchestrating removal of one or more nodes of a node cluster, including in a cloud computing environment in which nodes in a cluster map to deployed virtual machines. An automated workflow can be started based on user input specifying an amount of capacity to...