ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,767, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Storage virtual machine relocation" was invented by Balaji Ramani (Bangalore, India), Kazunobu Nishime (Milpitas, Calif.), Pankti Vinay Majmudar (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Prachi Bapurao Deshmukh (San Jose, Calif.), Susan M. Coatney (Cupertino, Calif.) and Vijay Singh (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more techniques and/or devices are provided for storage virtual machine relocation (e.g., ownership change) between storage clusters. For example, operational statistics of a first storage cluster and a second storage cluster may be evaluated to ident...