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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.
Inventor: Atul Ramesh Pandit , Vijay M. Deshumkh , Michael Lee Federwisch , Ling Zheng , Kiyoshi James Komatsu , Rachita Kothiyal
IPC: G06F11/20 , H04L67/1095 , H04L67/1097
CPC classification number: G06F11/2069 , G06F11/2071 , G06F11/2092 , H04L67/1095 , H04L67/1097 , G06F2201/805
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.
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公开(公告)号:US20230281088A1
公开(公告)日:2023-09-07
申请号:US18317298
申请日:2023-05-15
Applicant: NetApp Inc.
Inventor: Jose Mathew , Ling Zheng
CPC classification number: G06F11/1469 , G06F11/1464 , G06F11/1451 , G06F9/45558 , G06F11/1484 , G06F3/0619 , G06F3/065 , G06F3/0664 , G06F3/0673 , G06F11/1458 , G06F2201/84 , G06F2009/45575 , G06F2201/815 , G06F2009/45562 , G06F2201/80
Abstract: Techniques are provided for orchestrating operations between a storage environment and a computing environment hosting virtual machines. A virtual machine proxy, associated with a computing environment hosting a virtual machine, is accessed by an orchestrator to identify the virtual machine and properties of the virtual machine. A storage proxy, associated with a storage environment comprising a volume within which snapshots of the virtual machine are to be stored, is accessed by the orchestrator to initialize a backup procedure. The orchestrator utilizes the virtual machine proxy to create a snapshot of the virtual machine. The orchestrator utilizes the storage proxy to back up the snapshot to the volume using the backup procedure.
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公开(公告)号:US11650886B2
公开(公告)日:2023-05-16
申请号:US16856249
申请日:2020-04-23
Applicant: NetApp Inc.
Inventor: Jose Mathew , Ling Zheng
CPC classification number: G06F11/1469 , G06F3/065 , G06F3/0619 , G06F3/0664 , G06F3/0673 , G06F9/45558 , G06F11/1451 , G06F11/1458 , G06F11/1464 , G06F11/1484 , G06F2009/45562 , G06F2009/45575 , G06F2201/80 , G06F2201/815 , G06F2201/84
Abstract: Techniques are provided for orchestrating operations between a storage environment and a computing environment hosting virtual machines. A virtual machine proxy, associated with a computing environment hosting a virtual machine, is accessed by an orchestrator to identify the virtual machine and properties of the virtual machine. A storage proxy, associated with a storage environment comprising a volume within which snapshots of the virtual machine are to be stored, is accessed by the orchestrator to initialize a backup procedure. The orchestrator utilizes the virtual machine proxy to create a snapshot of the virtual machine. The orchestrator utilizes the storage proxy to back up the snapshot to the volume using the backup procedure.
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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.
Inventor: Atul Ramesh Pandit , Vijay M. Deshmukh , Michael Lee Federwisch , Ling Zheng , Kiyoshi James Komatsu , Rachita Kothiyal
IPC: G06F11/20 , H04L67/1095 , H04L67/1097
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.
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公开(公告)号:US20210406216A1
公开(公告)日:2021-12-30
申请号:US17039931
申请日:2020-09-30
Applicant: NetApp, Inc.
Inventor: Kiyoshi Komatsu , Ardalan Kangarlou , Richard Swift , Rajesh Rajaraman , Ling Zheng
IPC: G06F16/11 , G06F16/16 , G06F16/182 , G06F12/02 , G06F11/14
Abstract: Systems, methods, and machine-readable media for creating, deleting, and restoring volume snapshots in a remote data store are disclosed. A storage volume and a storage operating system are implemented in a software container. Through a user interface, a user may create a snapshot of the volume to a cloud storage. A user may also delete individual snapshots from the cloud storage. Further, deletion of a most recent snapshot may occur by awaiting deletion (though marking as deleted to the user) until a next snapshot is received. Snapshots in the cloud storage are manipulatable even after destruction of the source volume (by destruction of the container, for example). A controller outside the container is used by implementing the same API as the controller in the container had. Full restores of snapshots in the cloud are also possible even when the original container and volume have been destroyed.
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公开(公告)号:US11188500B2
公开(公告)日:2021-11-30
申请号:US16435829
申请日:2019-06-10
Applicant: NetApp Inc.
Inventor: Ajay Pratap Singh Kushwah , Ling Zheng , Sharad Jain
IPC: G06F16/11 , G06F16/13 , G06F11/14 , G06F12/121 , H04L29/08
Abstract: With a forever incremental snapshot configuration and a typical caching policy (e.g., least recently used), a storage appliance may evict stable data blocks of an older snapshot, perhaps unchanged data blocks of the snapshot baseline. If stable data blocks have been evicted, restore of a recent snapshot will suffer the time penalty of downloading the stable blocks for restoring the recent snapshot. Creating synthetic baseline snapshots and refreshing eviction data of stable data blocks can avoid eviction of stable data blocks and reduce the risk of violating a recovery time objective.
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公开(公告)号:US10565230B2
公开(公告)日:2020-02-18
申请号:US14876460
申请日:2015-10-06
Applicant: NetApp, Inc.
Inventor: Ling Zheng , Michael L. Federwisch , Blake H. Lewis
IPC: G06F16/27 , G06F16/11 , G06F16/28 , G06F16/2457
Abstract: A technique preserves efficiency for replication of data between a source node of a source cluster (“source”) and a destination node of a destination cluster (“destination”) of a clustered network. Replication in the clustered network may be effected by leveraging global in-line deduplication at the source to identify and avoid copying duplicate data from the source to the destination. To ensure that the copy of the data on the destination is synchronized with the data received at the source, the source creates a snapshot of the data for use as a baseline copy at the destination. Thereafter, new data received at the source that differs from the baseline snapshot are transmitted and copied to the destination. In addition, the source and destination nodes negotiate to establish a mapping of name-to-data when transferring data (i.e., an extent) between the clusters. Illustratively, the name is an extent key for the extent, such that the negotiated mapping established by the source and destination is based on the extent key associated with the extent.
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公开(公告)号:US10108547B2
公开(公告)日:2018-10-23
申请号:US14989392
申请日:2016-01-06
Applicant: NetApp, Inc.
Inventor: Anshul Pundir , Ashwin Pednekar , Ling Zheng , Michael L. Federwisch
IPC: G06F12/12 , G06F12/0817 , G06F12/0868 , G06F12/122 , G06F12/123 , G06F12/128
Abstract: A technique provides memory efficient caching of metadata managed by a volume layer of a storage input/output stack executing on one or more nodes of a cluster. Efficient caching of the metadata in a memory of a node may be realized through the use of a caching data structure, i.e., a page cache, configured to store a key-value pair, wherein the key is an extent key and the value is a metadata page containing the index entries. The page cache illustratively includes two data structures configured to maintain the properties of Least Recently Used (LRU) and Least Frequently Used (LFU) for the cache. The first data structure is a hash table that stores a dense tree metadata page (value) indexed by the extent key. The second data structure is a recycle queue that controls the metadata page stored in the hash table based on spatial and temporal locality of the page.
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公开(公告)号:US20180121454A1
公开(公告)日:2018-05-03
申请号:US15338272
申请日:2016-10-28
Applicant: NetApp, Inc.
Inventor: Ajay Pratap Singh Kushwah , Ling Zheng , Sharad Jain
IPC: G06F17/30 , G06F12/121 , H04L29/08
CPC classification number: G06F16/128 , G06F11/1448 , G06F11/1464 , G06F12/121 , G06F16/13 , H04L67/2842
Abstract: With a forever incremental snapshot configuration and a typical caching policy (e.g., least recently used), a storage appliance may evict stable data blocks of an older snapshot, perhaps unchanged data blocks of the snapshot baseline. If stable data blocks have been evicted, restore of a recent snapshot will suffer the time penalty of downloading the stable blocks for restoring the recent snapshot. Creating synthetic baseline snapshots and refreshing eviction data of stable data blocks can avoid eviction of stable data blocks and reduce the risk of violating a recovery time objective.
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公开(公告)号:US20180121453A1
公开(公告)日:2018-05-03
申请号:US15338219
申请日:2016-10-28
Applicant: NetApp, Inc.
Inventor: Sharad Jain , Hrishikesh Ashok Tapaswi , Ling Zheng , Onkar Bhat , Akhil Kaushik
Abstract: A storage appliance arranges snapshot data and snapshot metadata into different structures, and arranges the snapshot metadata to facilitate efficient snapshot manipulation, which may be for snapshot management or snapshot restore. The storage appliance receives snapshots according to a forever incremental configuration and arranges snapshot metadata into different types of records. The storage appliance stores these records in key-value stores maintained for each defined data collection (e.g., volume). The storage appliance arranges the snapshot metadata into records for inode information, records for directory information, and records that map source descriptors of data blocks to snapshot file descriptors. The storage appliance uses a locally generated snapshot identifier as a key prefix for the records to conform to a sort constrain of the key-value store, which allows the efficiency of the key-value store to be leveraged. The snapshot metadata arrangement facilitates efficient snapshot restore, file restore, and snapshot reclamation.
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