US Patent Issued to Virtuozzo International on Dec. 9 for "System and method for booting servers in a distributed storage to improve fault tolerance" (Russian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,537, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Virtuozzo International GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"System and method for booting servers in a distributed storage to improve fault tolerance" was invented by Denis Silakov (Moscow), Pavel Emelyanov (Moscow) and Alexey Kobets (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and method for booting servers in a distributed storage to improve fault tolerance. In one aspect, an exemplary method comprises, during a booting of a hardware server belonging to the distributed storage, starting a boot component from on any one physical block device from at least two or more physi...