US Patent Issued to VMware on Jan. 27 for "On-the-fly migration of distributed object manager (DOM) owner between DOM servers" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,048, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to VMware Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"On-the-fly migration of distributed object manager (DOM) owner between DOM servers" was invented by Saibal Kumar Adhya (Bangalore, India), Eric Knauft (San Francisco), Rahul Naren Pujari (Bangalore, India) and Sushanth Rai (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for efficient distributed object manager (DOM) owner migration in a virtual storage area network (VSAN) is provided. Embodiments include determining to migrate a DOM owner object from a source DOM owner server to a destination DOM owner server. Embodiments include determining that an i...