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.

    Snapshot creation with synchronous replication

    公开(公告)号:US10949309B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-03-16

    申请号:US14980428

    申请日:2015-12-28

    Applicant: NetApp Inc.

    Abstract: One or more techniques and/or computing devices are provided for snapshot creation. For example, a request may be received to create a snapshot of a first storage object, hosted by a first storage controller, having a synchronous replication relationship with a second storage object hosted by a second storage controller. A coordinator workflow is initialized to issue a drain and hold request to a splitter. Responsive to an indication that the splitter has stopped processing and started queuing incoming write operations and has drained current write operations based upon the drain and hold request, snapshot creation requests are sent to the first storage controller and the second storage controller. Responsive to the first storage controller creating a first snapshot of the first storage object and the second storage controller creating a second snapshot of the second storage object, the splitter may be resumed to process write operations.

    Overlapping write detection and processing for sync replication

    公开(公告)号:US10852961B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-12-01

    申请号:US16364496

    申请日:2019-03-26

    Applicant: NetApp Inc.

    Abstract: A primary write request that is to modify a primary portion of primary data stored in a primary storage node is received. The primary write request is to be replicated to create a current secondary write request. The current secondary write request is to modify a current secondary portion of secondary data that is stored in a secondary storage node. A current data range of the current secondary portion is determined. A determination is made of whether a previous secondary write request is in process of modifying a previous data range that at least partially overlaps with a current data range of the current secondary portion. Execution of the primary write request is suspended, until the previous secondary write request has completed updating the secondary storage node.

    Data synchronization
    34.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10684994B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-06-16

    申请号:US14865442

    申请日:2015-09-25

    Applicant: NetApp Inc.

    Abstract: One or more techniques and/or computing devices are provided for data synchronization. For example, an in-flight log may be maintained to track storage operations that are received by a first storage node, but have not been committed to both first storage of the first storage node and second storage of a second storage node that has a replication relationship, such as a disaster recovery relationship, with the first storage node. A dirty region log may be maintained to track regions within the first storage that have been modified by storage operations that have not been replicated to the second storage. Accordingly, a catchup synchronization phase (e.g., asynchronous replication by a resync scanner) may be performed to replicate storage operations (e.g., replicate data within dirty regions of the first storage that were modified by such storage operations) to the second storage until the first storage and the second storage are synchronized.

    SYNCHRONOUS REPLICATION FOR STORAGE
    35.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200084271A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-03-12

    申请号:US16682056

    申请日:2019-11-13

    Applicant: NetApp Inc.

    Abstract: One or more techniques and/or computing devices are provided for implementing synchronous replication. For example, a synchronous replication relationship may be established between a first storage controller hosting local storage and a second storage controller hosting remote storage (e.g., replication may be specified at a file, logical unit number (LUN), or any other level of granularity). Data operations and offloaded operations may be implemented in parallel upon the local storage and the remote storage. Error handling operations may be implemented upon the local storage and implement in parallel as a best effort on the remote storage, and a reconciliation may be performed to identify any data divergence from the best effort parallel implementation. Storage area network (SAN) operations may be implemented upon the local storage, and upon local completion may be remotely implemented upon the remote storage.

    Synchronous replication for storage area network protocol storage

    公开(公告)号:US10523751B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-12-31

    申请号:US15850754

    申请日:2017-12-21

    Applicant: NetApp Inc.

    Abstract: One or more techniques and/or computing devices are provided for implementing synchronous replication. For example, a synchronous replication relationship may be established between a first storage controller hosting local storage and a second storage controller hosting remote storage (e.g., replication may be specified at a file, logical unit number (LUN), or any other level of granularity). Data operations and offloaded operations may be implemented in parallel upon the local storage and the remote storage. Error handling operations may be implemented upon the local storage and implement in parallel as a best effort on the remote storage, and a reconciliation may be performed to identify any data divergence from the best effort parallel implementation. Storage area network (SAN) operations may be implemented upon the local storage, and upon local completion may be remotely implemented upon the remote storage.

    OVERLAPPING WRITE DETECTION AND PROCESSING FOR SYNC REPLICATION

    公开(公告)号:US20190220206A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-07-18

    申请号:US16364496

    申请日:2019-03-26

    Applicant: NetApp Inc.

    CPC classification number: G06F3/0619 G06F3/065 G06F3/067

    Abstract: A primary write request that is to modify a primary portion of primary data stored in a primary storage node is received. The primary write request is to be replicated to create a current secondary write request. The current secondary write request is to modify a current secondary portion of secondary data that is stored in a secondary storage node. A current data range of the current secondary portion is determined. A determination is made of whether a previous secondary write request is in process of modifying a previous data range that at least partially overlaps with a current data range of the current secondary portion. Execution of the primary write request is suspended, until the previous secondary write request has completed updating the secondary storage node.

    Overlapping write detection and processing for sync replication

    公开(公告)号:US09959064B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-05-01

    申请号:US15588726

    申请日:2017-05-08

    Applicant: NetApp Inc.

    CPC classification number: G06F3/0619 G06F3/065 G06F3/067

    Abstract: A primary write request that is to modify a primary portion of primary data stored in a primary storage node is received. The primary write request is to be replicated to create a current secondary write request. The current secondary write request is to modify a current secondary portion of secondary data that is stored in a secondary storage node. A current data range of the current secondary portion is determined. A determination is made of whether a previous secondary write request is in process of modifying a previous data range that at least partially overlaps with a current data range of the current secondary portion. Execution of the primary write request is suspended, until the previous secondary write request has completed updating the secondary storage node.

    RECONCILIATION IN SYNC REPLICATION
    39.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20170329678A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-11-16

    申请号:US15658112

    申请日:2017-07-24

    Applicant: NetApp, Inc.

    Abstract: A distributed storage system replicates data for a primary logical storage object on a primary node of the storage system to a secondary logical storage object on a secondary node on the distributed storage system. Failures in writing data to the primary logical storage object or failures in the replication of the data to the secondary logical storage object can cause data that should be synchronized to become divergent. In cases where the data may be divergent, reconciliation operations can be performed to resynchronize the data.

    OVERLAPPING WRITE DETECTION AND PROCESSING FOR SYNC REPLICATION

    公开(公告)号:US20170242603A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-08-24

    申请号:US15588726

    申请日:2017-05-08

    Applicant: NetApp Inc.

    CPC classification number: G06F3/0619 G06F3/065 G06F3/067

    Abstract: A primary write request that is to modify a primary portion of primary data stored in a primary storage node is received. The primary write request is to be replicated to create a current secondary write request. The current secondary write request is to modify a current secondary portion of secondary data that is stored in a secondary storage node. A current data range of the current secondary portion is determined. A determination is made of whether a previous secondary write request is in process of modifying a previous data range that at least partially overlaps with a current data range of the current secondary portion. Execution of the primary write request is suspended, until the previous secondary write request has completed updating the secondary storage node.

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