Moving a consistency group having a replication relationship

    公开(公告)号:US11449401B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-20

    申请号:US16806110

    申请日:2020-03-02

    Applicant: NetApp Inc.

    Abstract: One or more techniques and/or computing devices are provided for moving a consistency group having a replication relation. For example, a first consistency group of storage objects (e.g., files, logical unit numbers (LUNs), etc.) within first storage may have a replication relationship with a second consistency group within second storage (e.g., the second consistency group is maintained as a synchronously replicated copy of the first consistency group). A volume copy operation, a single file move on demand command, a single file restore command, or other functionality is used to move the first consistency group from the first storage to third storage, such as for load balancing, to create a moved first consistency group within the third storage. A new replication relationship is established between the moved first consistency group and the second consistency group, and the moved first consistency group and the second consistency group are resynchronized.

    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
    43.
    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.

    CLONED VIRTUAL MACHINE DISK REPLICATION
    44.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190324950A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-10-24

    申请号:US16456775

    申请日:2019-06-28

    Applicant: NetApp Inc.

    Abstract: One or more techniques and/or computing devices are provided for replicating virtual machine disk clones. For example, a first storage controller, hosting first storage, may have a synchronous replication relationship with a second storage controller hosting second storage. A virtual machine, within the first storage, may be specified as having synchronous replication protection. Accordingly, virtual machine disk clones of a virtual machine disk of the virtual machine may be replicated from the first storage to the second storage. For example, virtual machine disk clones may be synchronous replicated, replicated by a resync process invoked by a hypervisor agent, and/or stored and replicated from a clone backup directory.

    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.

    Granular sync/semi-sync architecture

    公开(公告)号:US09848043B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-12-19

    申请号:US15431063

    申请日:2017-02-13

    Applicant: NetApp Inc.

    Abstract: Data consistency and availability can be provided at the granularity of logical storage objects in storage solutions that use storage virtualization in clustered storage environments. To ensure consistency of data across different storage elements, synchronization is performed across the different storage elements. Changes to data are synchronized across storage elements in different clusters by propagating the changes from a primary logical storage object to a secondary logical storage object. To satisfy the strictest RPOs while maintaining performance, change requests are intercepted prior to being sent to a filesystem that hosts the primary logical storage object and propagated to a different managing storage element associated with the secondary logical storage object.

    RECONCILIATION IN SYNC REPLICATION
    49.
    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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