CROSS-PLATFORM REPLICATION
    12.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240202083A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-06-20

    申请号:US18591660

    申请日:2024-02-29

    Applicant: NetApp, Inc.

    Abstract: One or more techniques and/or computing devices are provided for cross-platform replication. For example, a replication relationship may be established between a first storage endpoint and a second storage endpoint, where at least one of the storage endpoints, such as the first storage endpoint, lacks or has incompatible functionality to perform and manage replication because the storage endpoints have different storage platforms that store data differently, use different control operations and interfaces, etc. Accordingly, replication destination workflow, replication source workflow, and/or a proxy representing the first storage endpoint may be implemented at the second storage endpoint comprising the replication functionality. In this way, replication, such as snapshot replication, may be implemented between the storage endpoints by the second storage endpoint using the replication destination workflow, the replication source workflow, and/or the proxy that either locally executes tasks or routes tasks to the first storage endpoint such as for data access.

    FLEXIBLE TIERING OF SNAPSHOTS TO ARCHIVAL STORAGE IN REMOTE OBJECT STORES

    公开(公告)号:US20230409523A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-12-21

    申请号:US18366053

    申请日:2023-08-07

    Applicant: NetApp Inc.

    CPC classification number: G06F16/128 G06F11/1458

    Abstract: Techniques are provided for tiering snapshots to archival storage in remote object stores. A restore time metric, indicating that objects comprising snapshot data of snapshots created within a threshold timespan are to be available within a storage tier of a remote object store for performing restore operations, may be identified. A scanner may be executed to evaluate snapshots using the restore time metric to identify a set of candidate snapshots for archival from the storage tier to an archival storage tier of the remote object store. For each candidate snapshot within the set of candidate snapshots, the scanner may evaluate metadata associated with the candidate snapshot to identity one or more objects eligible for archival from the storage tier to the archival storage tier, and may archive the one or more objects from the storage tier to the archival storage tier.

    IMMUTABLE SNAPSHOT COPIES STORED IN WRITE ONCE READ MANY (WORM) STORAGE

    公开(公告)号:US20230205446A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-06-29

    申请号:US18178706

    申请日:2023-03-06

    Applicant: NetApp Inc.

    Abstract: Techniques are provided for storing immutable snapshot copes in write once read many (WORM) storage. A snapshot of a volume may be stored into one or more objects formatted according to an object format. An expiry time may be assigned to the snapshot and the one or more objects based upon a creation time of the snapshot and a retention time. The one or more objects may be stored within a remote object store. The one or more objects are retained in an immutable state and cannot be deleted until expiration of the expiry time. In response to identifying an existing object within the remote object store comprising shared snapshot data referenced by the snapshot, an assigned expiry time of the existing object may be modified based upon the expiry time of the snapshot to create a modified expiry time for the existing object.

    Methods and Systems for Storage Virtual Machine Migration Between Clusters of a Networked Storage System

    公开(公告)号:US20230136363A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-05-04

    申请号:US17729900

    申请日:2022-04-26

    Applicant: NETAPP, INC.

    Abstract: Methods and systems for Vserver migration are provided. One method includes maintaining a state of a migrate operation for migrating a plurality of source storage volumes managed by a source storage virtual machine (Vserver) of a source cluster to a plurality of destination storage volumes of a destination cluster of a networked storage environment; restarting a process at a healthy node of the source cluster or the destination cluster to continue the migrate operation, in response to detecting an unhealthy node at the source cluster or the destination cluster executing the process; retrying a task associated with the migrate operation experiencing intermittent failure for a certain number of times, and upon successful execution, continuing the migration operation; and checking the state of the migrate operation and in response to the state of the migrate operation, continuing the migrate operation or restarting the migration operation.

    CROSS-PLATFORM REPLICATION
    16.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20220292005A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-15

    申请号:US17828900

    申请日:2022-05-31

    Applicant: NetApp Inc.

    Abstract: One or more techniques and/or computing devices are provided for cross-platform replication. For example, a replication relationship may be established between a first storage endpoint and a second storage endpoint, where at least one of the storage endpoints, such as the first storage endpoint, lacks or has incompatible functionality to perform and manage replication because the storage endpoints have different storage platforms that store data differently, use different control operations and interfaces, etc. Accordingly, replication destination workflow, replication source workflow, and/or a proxy representing the first storage endpoint may be implemented at the second storage endpoint comprising the replication functionality. In this way, replication, such as snapshot replication, may be implemented between the storage endpoints by the second storage endpoint using the replication destination workflow, the replication source workflow, and/or the proxy that either locally executes tasks or routes tasks to the first storage endpoint such as for data access.

    DATA CONNECTOR COMPONENT FOR IMPLEMENTING INTEGRITY CHECKING, ANOMALY DETECTION, AND FILE SYSTEM METADATA ANALYSIS

    公开(公告)号:US20220138207A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-05

    申请号:US17242356

    申请日:2021-04-28

    Applicant: NetApp Inc.

    Abstract: Techniques are provided for on-demand creation and/or utilization of containers and/or serverless threads for hosting data connector components. The data connector components can be used to perform integrity checking, anomaly detection, and file system metadata analysis associated with objects stored within an object store. The data connector components may be configured to execute machine learning functionality to perform operations and tasks. The data connector components can perform full scans or incremental scans. The data connector components may be stateless, and thus may be offlined, upgraded, onlined, and/or have tasks transferred between data connector components. Results of operations performed by the data connector components upon base objects may be stored within sibling objects.

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