US 10,379,771 B1 · Systems and methods for policy driven storage in a hyper-convergence data center

Abstract

Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system architecture for a policy driven disk IO throughput control for a hyper-converged storage provider. The computing architecture provides a flexible and real-time feature to the IO throughput management of a hyper-converged or converged infrastructure. In particular, through the use of centrally applied policy driven controls, the disk IO throughput allocation of different applications/clients of the converged infrastructure is gauged or otherwise controlled over the network bandwidth that link to the storage pool of the infrastructure. Through the use of the system architecture, the converged infrastructure may not utilize hard-coded disk resource allocation for each application/client in an isolated fashion, thereby allowing the IO throughput management to be flexible and agile in response to executed applications. Further, the IP throughput controlling and storage IP capacity of the converged infrastructure may be maintained separately.

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Dependent claims

A method comprising:

determining, based on monitoring a capacity of input/output (IO) throughput of a plurality of client devices of a computer system, to adjust the IO throughput of an associated client device, wherein the associated client device shares access to a shared pool of storage devices with the plurality of client devices of the computer system;
determining an adjusted IO throughput network policy for the associated client device based on the determination to adjust the IO throughput, wherein the adjusted IO throughput network policy modifies control, in accordance with the monitoring, of IO throughput over a network bandwidth of the associated client device that shares access with the plurality of client devices to the shared pool of storage devices;
translating the adjusted IO throughput network policy for the associated client device into an input for an IO throughput controller;
and
adjusting, by the IO throughput controller, the IO throughput from the shared pool of storage devices to the associated client device based at least on the adjusted IO throughput network policy.

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A computer system comprising:

an associated client device in communication with at least one physical component of the computer system, the associated client device comprising a computing device configured to execute one or more applications on the at least one physical component of the computer system;
a shared pool of storage devices in communication with the associated client device, the pool of storage devices available to a plurality of client devices of the computer system;
and
an input/output (IO) throughput controller in communication with the associated client device and the pool of storage devices, the IO throughput controller configured to control an IO throughput from the pool of storage devices to the associated client device through operations of:
determining, based on monitoring a capacity of input/output (IO) throughput of the plurality of client devices of the computer system, to adjust the IO throughput of the associated client device, wherein the associated client device shares access to the shared pool of storage devices with the plurality of client devices of the computer system;
determining an adjusted IO throughput network policy for the associated client device based on the determination to adjust the IO throughput, wherein the adjusted IO throughput network policy modifies control, in accordance with the monitoring, of IO throughput over a network bandwidth of the associated client device that shares access with the plurality of client devices to the shared pool of storage devices;
translating the adjusted IO throughput network policy for the associated client device into an input for an IO throughput controller;
and
adjusting, by the IO throughput controller, the IO throughput from the shared pool of storage devices to the associated client device based at least on the adjusted IO throughput network policy.

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A network device comprising:

a communication service in communication with an associated client device and a shared pool of storage devices available to the associated client device, the associated client device in communication with at least one physical component of a computer system comprising a plurality of client devices configured to execute one or more applications on the at least one physical component of the computer system;
and
a controller service for executing instructions stored in a computer-readable storage medium, wherein execution of the instructions by a processor:
determines, based on monitoring a capacity of input/output (IO) throughput of the plurality of client devices of the computer system, to adjust the IO throughput of the associated client device, wherein the associated client device shares access to the shared pool of storage devices with the plurality of client devices of the computer system;
determines an adjusted IO throughput network policy for the associated client device based on the determination to adjust the IO throughput, wherein the adjusted IO throughput network policy modifies control, in accordance with the monitoring, of IO throughput over a network bandwidth of the associated client device that shares access with the plurality of client devices to the shared pool of storage devices;
translates the adjusted IO throughput network policy for the associated client device into an input for an IO throughput controller;
and
adjusts the IO throughput from the shared pool of storage devices to the associated client device based at least on the adjusted IO throughput network policy.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Systems and methods for policy driven storage in a hyper-convergence data center

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