- Patent Title: Maintaining the benefit of parallel splitting of ops between primary and secondary storage clusters in synchronous replication while adding support for op logging and early engagement of op logging
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Application No.: US17510795Application Date: 2021-10-26
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Publication No.: US11928352B2Publication Date: 2024-03-12
- Inventor: Krishna Murthy Chandraiah Setty Narasingarayanapeta , Preetham Shenoy , Divya Kathiresan , Rakesh Bhargava
- Applicant: NetApp, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
- Current Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: Jaffery Watson Mendonsa & Hamilton LLP
- Priority: IN 2141020578 2021.05.05 IN 2141020579 2021.05.05
- Main IPC: G06F3/06
- IPC: G06F3/06

Abstract:
Systems and methods are described for performing persistent inflight tracking of operations (Ops) within a cross-site storage solution. According to one embodiment, a method comprises maintaining state information regarding a data synchronous replication status for a first storage object of a primary storage cluster and a second storage object of a secondary storage cluster. The state information facilitates automatic triggering of resynchronization for data replication between the first storage object and the second storage object. The method includes performing persistent inflight tracking of I/O operations with a first Op log of the primary storage cluster and a second Op log of the secondary storage cluster, establishing and comparing Op ranges for the first and second Op logs, and determining a relation between the Op range of the first Op log and the Op range of the second Op log to prevent divergence of Ops in the first and second Op logs and to support parallel split of the Ops.
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