METADATA COMPACTION
    81.
    发明申请
    METADATA COMPACTION 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号:US20200310697A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-01

    申请号:US16365956

    申请日:2019-03-27

    Applicant: NetApp Inc.

    Abstract: Techniques are provided for compacting indirect blocks. For example, an object is represented as a structure comprising data blocks within which data of the object is stored and indirect blocks comprising block numbers of where the data blocks are located in storage. Block numbers within a set of indirect blocks are compacted into a compacted indirect block comprising a base block number, a count of additional block numbers after the base block number in the compacted indirect block, and a pattern of the block numbers in the compacted indirect block. The compacted indirect block is stored into memory for processing access operations to the object. Storing compacted indirect blocks into memory allows for more block numbers to be stored within memory. This improves the processing of access operations because reading the block numbers from memory is faster than loading the block numbers from disk.

    OBJECT AND SEQUENCE NUMBER MANAGEMENT
    82.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200159705A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-05-21

    申请号:US16751766

    申请日:2020-01-24

    Applicant: NetApp Inc.

    Abstract: Techniques are provided for orphan object detection, invalid sequence number detection, and asynchronous object cleanup. A storage system may store data within one or more tiers of storage, such as a storage tier (e.g., solid state storage and disks maintained by the storage system), a remote object store (e.g., storage provided by a third party storage provider), and/or other storage tiers. Orphan objects, within the remote object store, that are no longer used by the storage system may be detected and/or deleted. When an aggregate of volumes is deleted, corresponding objects, within the remote object store, may be identified and/or deleted. Invalid sequence numbers (e.g., lost or corrupt sequence numbers locally maintained in a metafile) assigned to objects within the remote object store may be identified, deleted, and/or fixed.

    COMPOSITE AGGREGATE ARCHITECTURE
    83.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200089422A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-03-19

    申请号:US16690887

    申请日:2019-11-21

    Applicant: NetApp Inc.

    Abstract: Techniques are provided for providing a storage abstraction layer for a composite aggregate architecture. A storage abstraction layer is utilized as an indirection layer between a file system and a storage environment. The storage abstraction layer obtains characteristic of a plurality of storage providers that provide access to heterogeneous types of storage of the storage environment (e.g., solid state storage, high availability storage, object storage, hard disk drive storage, etc.). The storage abstraction layer generates storage bins to manage storage of each storage provider. The storage abstraction layer generates a storage aggregate from the heterogeneous types of storage as a single storage container. The storage aggregate is exposed to the file system as the single storage container that abstracts away from the file system the management and physical storage details of data of the storage aggregate.

    COMPOSITE AGGREGATE ARCHITECTURE
    84.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180275907A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-09-27

    申请号:US15467293

    申请日:2017-03-23

    Applicant: NetApp Inc.

    Abstract: Techniques are provided for providing a storage abstraction layer for a composite aggregate architecture. A storage abstraction layer is utilized as an indirection layer between a file system and a storage environment. The storage abstraction layer obtains characteristic of a plurality of storage providers that provide access to heterogeneous types of storage of the storage environment (e.g., solid state storage, high availability storage, object storage, hard disk drive storage, etc.). The storage abstraction layer generates storage bins to manage storage of each storage provider. The storage abstraction layer generates a storage aggregate from the heterogeneous types of storage as a single storage container. The storage aggregate is exposed to the file system as the single storage container that abstracts away from the file system the management and physical storage details of data of the storage aggregate.

    Discarding sensitive data from persistent point-in-time image
    88.
    发明授权
    Discarding sensitive data from persistent point-in-time image 有权
    从持久时间点图像中丢弃敏感数据

    公开(公告)号:US09043614B2

    公开(公告)日:2015-05-26

    申请号:US14033071

    申请日:2013-09-20

    Applicant: NetApp, Inc.

    CPC classification number: G06F21/6218 G06F21/62 G06F2221/2107

    Abstract: A network storage server implements a method to discard sensitive data from a Persistent Point-In-Time Image (PPI). The server first efficiently identifies a dataset containing the sensitive data from a plurality of datasets managed by the PPI. Each of the plurality of datasets is read-only and encrypted with a first encryption key. The server then decrypts each of the plurality of datasets, except the dataset containing the sensitive data, with the first encryption key. The decrypted datasets are re-encrypted with a second encryption key, and copied to a storage structure. Afterward, the first encryption key is shredded.

    Abstract translation: 网络存储服务器实现从持续时间点映像(PPI)中丢弃敏感数据的方法。 服务器首先从PPI管理的多个数据集中有效地识别包含敏感数据的数据集。 多个数据集中的每个数据集是只读的并用第一加密密钥加密。 服务器然后使用第一加密密钥对包含敏感数据的数据集之外的多个数据集中的每一个进行解密。 解密的数据集用第二加密密钥重新加密,并复制到存储结构。 之后,第一个加密密钥被打碎。

    Persistent memory architecture
    90.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US12210422B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-01-28

    申请号:US18459265

    申请日:2023-08-31

    Applicant: NetApp Inc.

    Abstract: Techniques are provided for implementing a persistent memory storage tier to manage persistent memory of a node. The persistent memory is managed by the persistent memory storage tier at a higher level within a storage operating system storage stack than a level at which a storage file system of the node is managed. The persistent memory storage tier intercepts an operation targeting the storage file system. The persistent memory storage tier retargets the operation from targeting the storage file system to targeting the persistent memory. The operation is transmitted to the persistent memory.

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