公开(公告)号：US20150370486A1

公开(公告)日：2015-12-24

申请号：US14585084

申请日：2014-12-29

Applicant: NetApp, Inc.

Inventor： Lakshmi Narayanan Bairavasundaram ,  Garth Goodson ,  Vipul Mathur ,  Shankar Pasupathy ,  Gokul Soundararajan ,  Kiran Srinivasan ,  Kaladhar Vorungati

IPC: G06F3/06 ,  H04L29/08 ,  G06F9/455

CPC classification number: G06F3/067 ,  G06F3/0611 ,  G06F3/0653 ,  G06F9/45558 ,  G06F12/109 ,  G06F2009/45583 ,  G06F2009/45595 ,  H04L67/1097

Abstract: The techniques introduced here provide for efficient management of storage resources in a modern, dynamic data center through the use of virtual storage appliances. Virtual storage appliances perform storage operations and execute in or as a virtual machine on a hypervisor. A storage management system monitors a storage system to determine whether the storage system is satisfying a service level objective for an application. The storage management system then manages (e.g., instantiates, shuts down, or reconfigures) a virtual storage appliance on a physical server. The virtual storage appliance uses resources of the physical server to meet the storage related needs of the application that the storage system cannot provide. This automatic and dynamic management of virtual storage appliances by the storage management system allows storage systems to quickly react to changing storage needs of applications without requiring expensive excess storage capacity.

Abstract translation: 这里介绍的技术通过使用虚拟存储设备来提供现代动态数据中心中的存储资源的有效管理。 虚拟存储设备执行存储操作，并在虚拟机管理程序中或作为虚拟机执行。 存储管理系统监视存储系统以确定存储系统是否满足应用的服务级目标。 存储管理系统然后管理（例如，实例化，关闭或重新配置）物理服务器上的虚拟存储设备。 虚拟存储设备使用物理服务器的资源来满足存储系统无法提供的应用程序的存储相关需求。 存储管理系统对虚拟存储设备的自动和动态管理允许存储系统快速响应应用中不断变化的存储需求，而不需要昂贵的超额存储容量。