US 2018/0007134 A1 · FABRIC ENCAPSULATED RESILIENT STORAGE

Abstract

Fabric encapsulated resilient storage is hardware-assisted resilient storage in which the reliability capabilities of a storage server are abstracted and managed transparently by a host fabric interface (HFI) to a switch. The switch abstracts the reliability capabilities of a storage server into a level of resilience in a hierarchy of levels of resilience. The resilience levels are accessible by clients as a quantifiable characteristic of the storage server. The resilience levels are used by the switch fabric to filter which storage servers store objects responsive to client requests to store objects at a specified level of resilience.

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Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method comprising:

in a switch having access to storage nodes and client nodes:
abstracting characteristics of each storage node into a level of resilience in a hierarchy of levels of resilience, the abstracted level of resilience representing how reliably each storage node stores objects;
causing an object to be stored on one or more of the storage nodes based on their respective abstracted levels of resilience.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

15/199,572Filed 30 Jun 2016

Published

4 Jan 2018

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Classification13 codes

H04L 67/1095
In which an application is distributed across nodes in the network: replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data…
G06F 3/0605
Improving or facilitating administration, e.g. storage management: by facilitating the interaction with a user or administrator
G06F 3/0617
Improving the reliability of storage systems: in relation to availability
G06F 3/0619
Improving the reliability of storage systems: in relation to data integrity, e.g. data losses, bit errors

Fabric encapsulated resilient storage

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Abstract

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