US 2021/0281642 A1 · MOVING STORAGE VOLUMES ACROSS NETWORK BOUNDARIES

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and computer readable media for moving storage volumes between virtual networks. For example, systems disclosed herein may manage mapping data including mappings between virtual networks and storage volumes. In particular, the systems disclosed herein may maintain mappings between virtual network identifiers (e.g., IP addresses) and globally unique identifiers (GUIDs) associated with respective storage volumes. A control plane may move storage volumes between virtual boundaries by modifying mapping entries based on a received request to move storage volume(s). By maintaining and modifying mapping data in this way, systems disclosed herein facilitate access to a storage device between different virtual networks without performing a computationally expensive and time-consuming process of physically moving data between storage volumes on a cloud computing system.

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Dependent claims

A method, comprising:

maintaining mapping data including a plurality of mapping entries, the plurality of mapping entries comprising mappings between virtual network identifiers and storage volume identifiers that point to storage volumes on a cloud computing system;
receiving a request to move a storage volume from a first virtual network to a second virtual network;
identifying, from the mapping data, a mapping entry including a mapping between a first virtual network identifier associated with the first virtual network and a storage volume identifier associated with the storage volume;
and
modifying the mapping entry to include an updated mapping between a second virtual network identifier corresponding to the second virtual network and the storage volume identifier.

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A system, comprising:

one or more processors;
memory in electronic communication with the one or more processors;
and
instructions stored in the memory, the instructions being executable by the one or more processors to:
maintain mapping data including a plurality of mapping entries, the plurality of mapping entries comprising mappings between virtual network identifiers and storage volume identifiers that point to storage volumes on a cloud computing system;
receive a request to move a storage volume from a first virtual network to a second virtual network;
identify, from the mapping data, a mapping entry including a mapping between a first virtual network identifier associated with the first virtual network and a storage volume identifier associated with the storage volume;
and
modify the mapping entry to include an updated mapping between a second virtual network identifier corresponding to the second virtual network and the storage volume identifier.

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A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, causes a computing device to:

maintain mapping data including a plurality of mapping entries, the plurality of mapping entries comprising mappings between virtual network identifiers and storage volume identifiers that point to storage volumes on a cloud computing system;
receive a request to move a storage volume from a first virtual network to a second virtual network;
identify a mapping entry from the mapping data including a mapping between a first virtual network identifier associated with the first virtual network and a storage volume identifier associated with the storage volume;
and
modify the mapping entry to include an updated mapping between a second virtual network identifier corresponding to the second virtual network and the storage volume identifier.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Moving storage volumes across network boundaries

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Moving storage volumes across network boundaries

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Abstract

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