Invention Application
- Patent Title: SNAPSHOT SPACE REPORTING USING A PROBABILISTIC DATA STRUCTURE
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Application No.: US17239239Application Date: 2021-04-23
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Publication No.: US20220342848A1Publication Date: 2022-10-27
- Inventor: Pranay Singh , Wenguang Wang , Nitin Rastogi
- Applicant: VMware, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Assignee: VMware, Inc.
- Current Assignee: VMware, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Main IPC: G06F16/11
- IPC: G06F16/11 ; G06F9/455 ; G06F16/13 ; G06F16/188 ; G06N7/00

Abstract:
The present disclosure is related to methods, systems, and machine-readable media for snapshot space reporting. A first probabilistic data structure can be created for a first snapshot of a virtual computing instance (VCI) in a file system based on a hash of physical block numbers of a plurality of blocks of the first snapshot. A second probabilistic data structure can be created for a second snapshot of the VCI based on a hash of physical block numbers of a plurality of blocks of the second snapshot. A space report can be determined for the first and second snapshots based on the first probabilistic data structure and the second probabilistic data structure, wherein the space report is indicative of the storage space occupied by the first and second snapshots. A file system function can be performed by reference to the space report.
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