Netapp, Inc.

Anuja Jaiswal

Yong Cho

Susan M Coatney

Devang Kundanlal Shah

Parag Sarfare

Chaitanya V Patel

Tabriz Holtz

Andrew Eric Dunn

Vani Vully

Nikul Y Patel

Pavan Verma

Mohit Kumar

Jayesh Gada

A system and method for avoiding object identifier collisions in a cluster environment is provided. Upon creation of the cluster, volume location databases negotiate ranges for data set identifiers (DSIDs) between a first site and a second site of the cluster. Any pre-existing objects are remapped into an object identifier range associated with the particular site hosting the object.

System and method for avoiding object identifier collisions in a peered cluster environment

Techniques for recovering from a failure at a disaster recovery site are disclosed. An example method includes receiving an indication to shift control of a set of volumes of a plurality of volumes. The set of volumes is originally owned by a second storage node. The first storage node is a disaster recovery partner of the second storage node. The method includes shifting control of the set of volumes. The method further includes during the shifting, changing a status of a flag corresponding to a progress of the shifting. The method also includes during a reboot of the first storage node, determining the status of the flag and determining, based on the status of the flag, whether to mount the set of volumes during reboot at the first storage node.

Method and system for handling failures by tracking status of switchover or switchback

Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing deferred replication of recovery information at site switchover are disclosed. A computer-implemented method may include receiving a first copy of logged data for storage volumes of a disaster recovery (DR) partner at a remote site from the DR partner, receiving a request to perform a site switchover from the remote site to the local site, receiving a second copy of logged data for the storage volumes from a local high availability (HA) partner in response to the switchover, and recovering the storage volumes locally by applying one or more of the copies of logged data to corresponding mirrored storage volumes at the local site.

Deferred replication of recovery information at site switchover

Many applications and computing environments, such as data storage systems, provide data backup and restoration features. It may be advantageous to provide file level backups that may be accessible to a user through a directory structure of a file system. Accordingly, fileshots comprising backup data of a file may be stored as metadata of the file. For example, a fileshot may be stored within a stream directory as a hidden stream linked off of the file. Fileshots may be associated within a directory interface (e.g., a command prompt or graphical user interface), which may be presented to a user. In this way, the user may access and/or manage fileshots through the directory interface (e.g., the user may create fileshots, restore files with fileshots, copy fileshots, etc.). Additionally, fileshot metadata may be maintained for fileshots. The fileshot metadata may be used to locate fileshot and/or perform fileshot commands.

Fileshot management

Example embodiments provide various techniques for provisioning a write once, read many (WORM) state. In one embodiment, an identifier is accessed. This identifier is assigned to a volume that is associated with an aggregate of storage devices and identifies a first type of the WORM state that is different from a second type of the WORM state associated with the aggregate. The first type of the WORM state is applied to the volume and the application results in different types of WORM states between the aggregate and the volume. Modification of data stored in the volume is then restricted based the first type of WORM state.

Provisioning different types of write once, read many states

A method and system for providing an improved compliance clock service are described. An example method comprises establishing a system compliance clock (SCC) for a storage system that provides a compliant storage service, and establishing, for a volume in the storage system, a volume compliance clock (VCC). A current value of the SCC may be periodically updated based on hardware ticks monitored at the associated storage node. The volume compliance clock is to update its value based on a current value of the SCC.

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