-
公开(公告)号:US20210357126A1
公开(公告)日:2021-11-18
申请号:US17284482
申请日:2018-11-16
Applicant: VMware, Inc.
Inventor: Zhaohui GUO , Yang YANG , Haitao ZHOU , Zhou HUANG , Jin FENG
Abstract: A method is provided for a hyper-converged storage-compute system to implement an active-active failover architecture for providing Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) target service. The method intelligently selects multiple hosts to become storage nodes that process iSCSI input/output (I/O) for a target. The method further enables iSCSI persistent reservation (PR) to handle iSCSI I/Os from multiple initiators.
-
公开(公告)号:US20210081352A1
公开(公告)日:2021-03-18
申请号:US16656499
申请日:2019-10-17
Applicant: VMware, Inc.
Inventor: Yang YANG , Haitao ZHOU , Zhaohui GUO , Jian ZHAO , Zhou HUANG , Jin FENG
IPC: G06F15/173 , G06F13/16 , G06F13/42 , H04L29/08 , H04L29/06 , H04L12/879
Abstract: Certain Embodiments described herein relate to configuring the network-storage stack of two devices (e.g., physical or virtual) communicating together (e.g., an initiator and a target, as defined below) with Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI) extension for remote direct memory access (RDMA) iSER, which is a protocol designed to utilize RDMA to accelerate iSCSI data transfer. The iSER protocol is implemented as an iSER datamover layer that acts as an interface between an iSCSI layer and an RDMA layer of the network-storage stacks of the two devices. Using iSER in conjunction with RDMA allows for bypassing the existing traditional network protocol layers (e.g., TCP/IP protocol layers) of the devices and permits data to be transferred directly, between the two devices, using certain memory buffers, thereby avoiding memory copies taking place when the existing network protocol layers are used.
-
公开(公告)号:US20220197568A1
公开(公告)日:2022-06-23
申请号:US17169551
申请日:2021-02-08
Applicant: VMware, Inc.
Inventor: Yang YANG , Jin FENG , Haitao ZHOU , Jianrong ZHAO
Abstract: An example method for diagnosing an input/output (I/O) issue associated with an object owned by the first host in a vSAN cluster is disclosed. The method includes identifying a first component and a second component of the object. In response to the first component being locally stored on the first host, the methods include collecting a first set of I/O aggregated statistic information. In response to the second component being remotely stored on the second host, the methods include issuing a command to the second host, obtaining a second set of I/O aggregated statistic information from the second host and network metrics associated with the first host and the second host. The methods include diagnosing the I/O issue associated with the object based on the first and second sets of I/O aggregated statistic information and the network metrics.
-
公开(公告)号:US20210224095A1
公开(公告)日:2021-07-22
申请号:US16820732
申请日:2020-03-17
Applicant: VMware, Inc.
Inventor: Haitao ZHOU , Yang YANG , Zhaohui GUO , Jian ZHAO , Zhou HUANG , Jin FENG
Abstract: One example method to support Internet small computer system interface (iSCSI) services in a distributed storage system of a virtualization system may include receiving a notification of a change event associated with a global virtual Internet Protocol (VIP) object, wherein the global VIP object is associated with a virtual IP address for the iSCSI services. The method may also include in response to a first determination that the first host machine does not own the global VIP object and in response to a second determination that the first host machine gains ownership of the global VIP object based on the notification, locking the global VIP object and binding the virtual IP address to the first host machine.
-
公开(公告)号:US20200250126A1
公开(公告)日:2020-08-06
申请号:US16849947
申请日:2020-04-15
Applicant: VMware, Inc.
Inventor: Zhaohui GUO , Yang Yang , Haitao ZHOU , Jian ZHAO , Zhou HUANG , Jin FENG
Abstract: A method is provided for a hyper-converged storage-compute system to implement an active-active failover architecture for providing Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) target service. The method intelligently selects multiple hosts to become storage nodes that process iSCSI input/output (I/O) for a target. The method further enables iSCSI persistent reservation (PR) to handle iSCSI I/Os from multiple initiators.
-
公开(公告)号:US20210224096A1
公开(公告)日:2021-07-22
申请号:US16820735
申请日:2020-03-17
Applicant: VMware, Inc.
Inventor: Haitao ZHOU , Yang YANG , Zhaohui GUO , Jian ZHAO , Zhou HUANG , Jin FENG
Abstract: One example method to perform object-based load balancing in a distributed storage system of a virtualization system supported by a cluster of host machines may include determining, by a first host machine in the cluster, whether any host machine in the cluster has affinity to a site. The method may also include determining, by the first host machine, whether to distribute affinity Internet small computer system interface (iSCSI) targets owned by the first host machine to at least the second machine based on a first balance objective associated with the site, and after having considered the first balance objective, determining, by the first host machine, whether to distribute iSCSI targets without affinity owned by the first host machine to other host machines in the cluster based on a second balance objective associated with the cluster.
-
7.
公开(公告)号:US20210109862A1
公开(公告)日:2021-04-15
申请号:US16653548
申请日:2019-10-15
Applicant: VMware, Inc.
Inventor: Yang YANG , Zhaohui GUO , Haitao ZHOU , Zhou HUANG , Jian ZHAO , Jin FENG
Abstract: The disclosure herein describes enabling use of a logical unit for data storage in a distributed storage system using a plurality of backend data objects. Based on receiving instructions to create a logical unit of a logical unit size, a target backend object size to be used with the logical unit is determined, and a plurality of backend objects for allocation to the logical unit is calculated. The backend objects are allocated to the logical unit and a metadata mapping associated with the logical unit is generated. The metadata mapping associates logical block addresses of the logical unit to the allocated backend objects. The logical unit is linked with the metadata mapping in an input/output (I/O) service and, based on the linked metadata mapping, I/O traffic is routed to and from the logical unit. Using multiple backend objects enhances flexibility and efficiency of data storage on the distributed storage system.
-
-
-
-
-
-