Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Elastic metadata and multiple tray allocation
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Application No.: US15308916Application Date: 2015-10-07
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Publication No.: US10372537B2Publication Date: 2019-08-06
- Inventor: Charles C. Bennett, Jr. , Nathan W. Clark , Kevin S. Canuette Grimaldi , Morgan Tyler Maxwell , Clayton A. Curry , Robert Barton Cooper
- Applicant: Hitachi Vantara Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Hitachi Vantara Corporation
- Current Assignee: Hitachi Vantara Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Mattingly & Malur, PC
- International Application: PCT/US2015/054510 WO 20151007
- International Announcement: WO2016/093937 WO 20160616
- Main IPC: G06F11/00
- IPC: G06F11/00 ; G06F11/10 ; G06F11/20 ; G06F11/07 ; G06F3/06

Abstract:
In some examples, both object data and corresponding metadata are stored on thin provisioned block storage in which blocks for the storage of the object data and the metadata are dynamically provisioned from a shared pool. For instance, the metadata may be stored on the block storage using a tree data structure that may grow proportionally with the corresponding stored object data. The object storage may automatically adapt to the size and number of objects being stored, and storage space for metadata may be allocated dynamically on demand. Additionally, some implementations include storing data across multiple trays. For instance, a plurality of storage extents of an extent group may be allocated across a plurality of storage devices on multiple trays. The extent allocation may be tray-aware by allocating extents to maximize the probability that data remains available/recoverable in the presence of a failure in one or more trays.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170075781A1 ELASTIC METADATA AND MULTIPLE TRAY ALLOCATION Public/Granted day:2017-03-16
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