System and method for distributed deduplication in a composed system

A method for managing composed information handling systems to provide data protection services for data generated by applications hosted by the composed information handling systems, comprising:

• obtaining a composition request for a composed information handling system, wherein the composition request specifies data protection services to be provided to a composed information handling system for data generated by an application hosted by the composed information handling system;
• identifying at least one compute resource set having compute resources specified by the composition request;
• identifying at least one hardware resource set having hardware resources specified by the composition request;
• setting up, based on the composition request, storage management services for managing reads and writes of the data to the at least one hardware resource set using an at least one control resource set to obtain logical hardware resources, wherein setting up the storage management services comprises:
• instantiating a central data protection manager using additional computing resources, wherein the central data protection manager performs a first portion of the data protection services comprising maintaining a hash repository associated with storage resources of the at least one hardware resource set;
• registering the at least one control resource set with the central data protection manager;
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• preparing the at least one control resource set to perform a second portion of the data protection services using the central data protection manager, wherein the second portion of the data protection services comprises performing deduplication, encryption, and compression on data chunks of the data generated by the application;
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• presenting the logical hardware resources using the at least one control resource set to the at least one compute resource set as bare metal resources to instantiate the composed information handling system to service the composition request.

A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising computer readable program code, which when executed by a computer processor enables the computer processor to perform a method for managing composed information handling systems to provide data protection services for data generated by applications hosted by the composed information handling systems, the method comprising:

• obtaining a composition request for a composed information handling system, wherein the composition request specifies data protection services to be provided to a composed information handling system for data generated by an application hosted by the composed information handling system;
• identifying at least one compute resource set having compute resources specified by the composition request;
• identifying at least one hardware resource set having hardware resources specified by the composition request;
• setting up, based on the composition request, storage management services for managing reads and writes of the data to the at least one hardware resource set using an at least one control resource set to obtain logical hardware resources, wherein setting up the storage management services comprises:
• instantiating a central data protection manager using additional computing resources, wherein the central data protection manager performs a first portion of the data protection services comprising maintaining a hash repository associated with storage resources of the at least one hardware resource set;
• registering the at least one control resource set with the central data protection manager;
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• preparing the at least one control resource set to perform a second portion of the data protection services using the central data protection manager, wherein the second portion of the data protection services comprises performing deduplication, encryption, and compression on data chunks of the data generated by the application;
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• presenting the logical hardware resources using the at least one control resource set to the at least one compute resource set as bare metal resources to instantiate the composed information handling system to service the composition request.