公开(公告)号：US20230385244A1

公开(公告)日：2023-11-30

申请号：US18448325

申请日：2023-08-11

Applicant: NetApp, Inc.

Inventor： Murali Subramanian ,  Sohan Shetty ,  Rakesh Bhargava ,  Akhil Kaushik

IPC: G06F16/178 ,  G06F16/23 ,  G06F16/172 ,  G06F3/06

CPC classification number: G06F16/178 ,  G06F16/2365 ,  G06F16/172 ,  G06F3/0614 ,  G06F3/065 ,  G06F11/2069

Abstract: Systems and methods for reducing delays between the time at which a need for a resynchronization of data replication between a volume of a local CG and its peer volume of a remote CG is detected and the time at which the resynchronization is triggered (Reseed Time Period) are provided. According to an example, information indicative of the direction of data replication between the volume and the peer volume is maintained within a cache of a node. Responsive to a disruptive operation (e.g., relocation of the volume from a first node to a second node), the Reseed Time Period is lessened by proactively adding a passive cache entry to a cache within the second node at the time the CG relationship is created when the second node represents an HA partner of the first node and prior to the volume coming online when the second node represents a non-HA partner.

公开(公告)号：US20230367494A1

公开(公告)日：2023-11-16

申请号：US18360133

申请日：2023-07-27

Applicant: NetApp, Inc.

Inventor： Arul Valan ,  Anoop Vijayan ,  Akhil Kaushik

IPC: G06F3/06

CPC classification number: G06F3/0631 ,  G06F3/0604 ,  G06F3/067

Abstract: Systems and methods for making a cross-site storage solution resilient towards mediator unavailability are provided. According to one embodiment, a stretched storage system is operable to bring a mediator associated with a primary and secondary distributed storage system back into the role of an arbitrator for peered consistency groups (CGs). A mediator reseed status indicator is maintained for multiple CGs to identify when the mediator’s status information for a CG is stale. When the mediator becomes available and a local CG is identified as the subject of a mediator reseed process, the master node of the primary that hosts a master copy of a dataset for the local CG performs the reseed process, including: (i) causing relationship status information for the local CG to be updated on the mediator to the current state maintained by the primary; and (ii) resetting the mediator reseed status indicator.

公开(公告)号：US11768624B2

公开(公告)日：2023-09-26

申请号：US17543351

申请日：2021-12-06

Applicant: NetApp Inc.

Inventor： Akhil Kaushik ,  Anil Kumar Ponnapur ,  Aravind Srinivasa Raghavan ,  Manoj Kumar V Sundararajan

IPC: G06F3/06

CPC classification number: G06F3/065 ,  G06F3/061 ,  G06F3/067 ,  G06F3/0617 ,  G06F3/0619 ,  G06F3/0658 ,  G06F3/0659 ,  G06F3/0683

Abstract: One or more techniques and/or computing devices are provided for resilient replication of storage operations. For example, a first storage controller may host first storage having a replication relationship with second storage hosted by a second storage controller. To improve resiliency against transient network issues of a network between the storage controllers, the first storage controller may implement a queue and retry mechanism to retry replication operations not acknowledge back by the second storage controller within a threshold time. The second storage controller may maintain a cumulative sequence number of a latest replication operation performed in order, an operation response map of replication operations performed out of order, and an operation finder map identifying currently implemented replication operations, which may be used to process incoming replication operations. Single write semantics, write order consistency, and reduction of write amplification may be provided.

公开(公告)号：US11740811B2

公开(公告)日：2023-08-29

申请号：US17219740

申请日：2021-03-31

Applicant: NetApp, Inc.

Inventor： Arul Valan ,  Anoop Vijayan ,  Akhil Kaushik

IPC: G06F3/00 ,  G06F3/06

CPC classification number: G06F3/0631 ,  G06F3/0604 ,  G06F3/067

Abstract: Systems and methods for making a cross-site storage solution resilient towards mediator unavailability are provided. According to one embodiment, a stretched storage system is operable to bring a mediator associated with a primary and secondary distributed storage system back into the role of an arbitrator for peered consistency groups (CGs). A mediator reseed status indicator is maintained for multiple CGs to identify when the mediator's status information for a CG is stale. When the mediator becomes available and a local CG is identified as the subject of a mediator reseed process, the master node of the primary that hosts a master copy of a dataset for the local CG performs the reseed process, including: (i) causing relationship status information for the local CG to be updated on the mediator to the current state maintained by the primary; and (ii) resetting the mediator reseed status indicator.

公开(公告)号：US20230137443A1

公开(公告)日：2023-05-04

申请号：US17729885

申请日：2022-04-26

Applicant: NETAPP, INC.

Inventor： Atul Ramesh Pandit ,  Kalaivani Arumugham ,  Akhil Kaushik ,  Ching-Yuk Paul Ngan ,  Kazunobu Nishime ,  Rakesh Bhargava M R ,  William R. Taylor

IPC: G06F9/455 ,  G06F9/50

Abstract: Methods and systems for Vserver migration are provided. One method includes executing a transfer phase of a migrate operation for migrating a Vserver of a source cluster to a destination cluster, using asynchronous baseline transfer to transfer a plurality of source storage volumes configured in a consistency group (CG) for the migrate operation to a plurality of destination storage volumes of a destination cluster; updating a state of each of the plurality of source storage volumes to a sync state indicating completion of a pre-commit phase of the migrate operation to initiate a commit phase of the migrate operation; and generating a snapshot of the plurality of destination storage volumes for performing data integrity checks between data stored at the source cluster and migrated data at destination cluster, after completing a commit phase of the migrate operation.

公开(公告)号：US20230081436A1

公开(公告)日：2023-03-16

申请号：US17990769

申请日：2022-11-21

Applicant: NetApp Inc.

Inventor： Anoop Chakkalakkal Vijayan ,  Shrey Sengar ,  Krishna Murthy Chandraiah Setty Narasingarayanapeta ,  Akhil Kaushik

IPC: G06F16/27 ,  G06F16/23

Abstract: Techniques are provided for dependency aware parallel splitting of operations. For example, a count of pending data operations being executed by a first node and replicated in parallel to a second node are tracked. A metadata operation is executed at the first node based upon the count being less than a threshold (e.g., the count being zero). A first list of affected inodes modified by the metadata operation is identified. A dependency of the metadata operation with respect to pending metadata operations replicated to the second node is determined. The metadata operation is dispatched to the second node based upon the dependency indicating that the metadata operation is independent of the pending metadata operations.

公开(公告)号：US11593016B2

公开(公告)日：2023-02-28

申请号：US16940462

申请日：2020-07-28

Applicant: NetApp Inc.

Inventor： Akhil Kaushik ,  Anoop Chakkalakkal Vijayan ,  Krishna Murthy Chandraiah setty Narasingarayanapeta ,  Shrey Sengar

IPC: G06F3/06 ,  G06F16/901 ,  G06F11/20

Abstract: Techniques are provided for serializing replication operations. A plurality of operations are implemented upon a first storage object and are replicated as a plurality of replication operations. An order with which the plurality of replication operation are to be executed upon a second storage object is determined. Execution of the plurality of replication operations upon the second storage object is serialized according to the order.

公开(公告)号：US20220382484A1

公开(公告)日：2022-12-01

申请号：US17882713

申请日：2022-08-08

Applicant: NetApp Inc.

Inventor： Devang Kundanlal Shah ,  Dipankar Roy ,  Krishnaveni Budati ,  Kai Tan ,  Pranab Patnaik ,  Akhil Kaushik

IPC: G06F3/06

Abstract: One or more techniques and/or computing devices are provided for managing an arbitrary set of storage items using a granset. For example, a storage controller may host a plurality of storage items and/or logical unit numbers (LUNs). A subset of the storage items are grouped into a consistency group. A granset is created for tracking, managing, and/or providing access to the storage items within the consistency group. For example, the granset comprises application programming interfaces (APIs) and/or properties used to provide certain levels of access to the storage items (e.g., read access, write access, no access), redirect operations to access either data of an active file system or to a snapshot, fence certain operations (e.g., rename and delete operations), and/or other properties that apply to each storage item within the consistency group. Thus, the granset provides a persistent on-disk layout used to manage an arbitrary set of storage items.

公开(公告)号：US11507600B2

公开(公告)日：2022-11-22

申请号：US16686686

申请日：2019-11-18

Applicant: NetApp Inc.

Inventor： Anoop Chakkalakkal Vijayan ,  Shrey Sengar ,  Krishna Murthy Chandraiah setty Narasingarayanapeta ,  Akhil Kaushik

IPC: G06F16/27 ,  G06F16/182

Abstract: Techniques are provided for dependency aware parallel splitting of operations. For example, a count of pending data operations being executed by a first node and replicated in parallel to a second node are tracked. A metadata operation is executed at the first node based upon the count being less than a threshold (e.g., the count being zero). A first list of affected inodes modified by the metadata operation is identified. A dependency of the metadata operation with respect to pending metadata operations replicated to the second node is determined. The metadata operation is dispatched to the second node based upon the dependency indicating that the metadata operation is independent of the pending metadata operations.

公开(公告)号：US11481139B1

公开(公告)日：2022-10-25

申请号：US17219816

申请日：2021-03-31

Applicant: NetApp, Inc.

Inventor： Anoop Vijayan ,  Akhil Kaushik ,  Sohan Shetty ,  Dhruvil Shah

IPC: G06F3/00 ,  G06F3/06

Abstract: Systems and methods are described for efficiently processing events related to a relationship between a primary copy of data at a primary storage system and a mirror copy of the data at a cross-site secondary storage system of a multi-site distributed storage system. According to an example, a mediator agent that is configured on both primary and secondary storage systems provides coordination and serialization for various events generated in the relationship. The multi-site distributed storage system performs actions based on the event processing such as performing a failover operation from the primary storage system to the secondary storage system or resynchronizing the relationship to ensure application protection and availability.