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David Meiri

Anton Kucherov

Xiangping Chen

Mark J Halstead

Dan Arnon

Benjamin W Yoder

William R Stronge

Haim Kopylovitz

Assaf Natanzon

Arieh Don

Hana Moreshet

Douglas Eric LeCrone

Dmitry Nikolayevich Tylik

Alex Veprinsky

Peter Kamvysselis

Vadim Longinov

Alexandr Veprinsky

Adi Ofer

Patrick Brian Riordan

John R Sopka

John T Fitzgerald

Ido Halevi

Felix Shvaiger

Yuval Harduf

Magnus E Bjornsson

Kevin C Heasley

Vladimir Shveidel

Ian Wigmore

Brett A Quinn

Ying Hu

Svetlana Kronrod

Gary H Cox

Tal Ben-Moshe

Xiali He

William P Thibodeau

Saar Cohen

Marik Marshak

Zvi Schneider

Dan Aharoni

Nagasimha G Haravu

Philip C Love

Aharon Blitzer

Kenneth Goguen

Ramprasad Shetty

Carole Ann Gelotti

Xiaoyan Wei

Dimitar Petkov Gueorguiev

Irit Yadin Lempel

Brian Riordan

Sathyanarayan Jaganathan

Peter Kamvysselisi

Oliver M D Shorey

Vinay G Rao

Sanjib Mallick

Michael J Scharland

Alan Lee Taylor

Rong Yu

Bradford B Glade

Anestis Panidis

Bar David

Girish Sheelvant

Kobi Luz

Slavik Neymer

George M Ericson

Robert DeCrescenzo

David Barta

Dale Hagglund

James M McGillis

Balakrishnan Ganeshan

George F Lettery

Archana Parasnis

Muralidhar R Balcha

John Carrel

Eugene Ortenberg

Arich Don

Yigal Banker

Dharmesh Thakkar

Navindra Sharma

Ernesto Blanco

Timothy R Rosner

Ophir Buchman

Christopher Sayles

A clustered pair of storage systems configured for active-active bidirectional synchronous replication expose a stretched volume over paths to both storage systems. Writes to the stretched volume received at each system are replicated to the peer system. The cluster can use a time-to-live (TTL) mechanism by which a non-preferred system continuously requests a TTL grant from the preferred system to remain in the cluster. Algorithms that reduce or avoid data unavailability are described and can include assessing the health of the systems in the cluster. An unhealthy system can trigger a one-sided polarization algorithm to notify the peer system that it is polarization winner. An improved polarization technique using a witness to decide the polarization winner includes a system adding a time delay before contacting the witness if the system is unhealthy. A control component can detect an unhealthy system and disable the active-active bidirectional synchronous replication.

Techniques for avoiding and reducing data unavailability

A method is used in managing an asynchronous and synchronous transmit priority mechanism. The method receives a plurality of replication requests in conjunction with a replication process, where the plurality of replication requests comprises at least one of a first replication request or a second replication request. A first storage system that comprises a plurality of storage devices is configured to participate in the replication process with a second storage system that comprises a plurality of storage devices. The method determines an execution order to optimize processing of the plurality of replication requests, where a first replication request execution order that optimizes processing of the at least one first replication request conflicts with optimizing processing of the at least one second replication request.

Asynchronous and synchronous transmit priority mechanism

A method is provided, comprising: receiving, at a source system, a first copy instruction, the first copy instruction being associated with a token that represents one or more data items, the first copy instruction instructing the source system to copy the one or more data items from a first volume to a second volume; in response to the first copy instruction, retrieving one or more hash digests from a snapshot that is associated with the token, each of the one or more hash digests being associated with a different one of the one or more data items; and transmitting, to a target system, a second copy instruction that is associated with the one or more hash digests, the second copy instruction instructing the target system to copy the one or more data items to a replica of the second volume that is stored at the target system.

Token-based offload data transfer with synchronous replication

A method may select a surviving storage node based on environmental conditions. A request for exclusive access to a volume is received. A score based on data associated with an environment of the node is determined for each node in a cluster. Based on the scores, a node to grant exclusive access to the volume is identified, and such exclusive access is granted to the identified node.

Selecting surviving storage node based on environmental conditions

A method, computer program product, and computing system for dividing a volume into a plurality of segments. The plurality of segments may be assigned to a plurality of nodes of a multi-node storage system. One or more input/output (IO) request paths for accessing the plurality of segments may be defined based upon, at least in part, assigning the plurality of segments to the plurality of nodes.

System and method for segmenting volumes across a multi-node storage system

An apparatus comprises at least one processing device that includes a processor coupled to a memory. The processing device is configured to identify a plurality of resource objects associated with a processing device, to group correlated resource objects according to processing device utilization of the resource objects, to assign a first weight to a first resource object grouping, wherein the first weight is associated with a performance impact of the first resource object grouping on the processing device, and to release at least some of the first resource object grouping to provide additional resources to a second resource object grouping, the additional resources resulting from the releasing, wherein the first object grouping is selected for the releasing based on a comparison between the first weight and a second weight associated with the second resource object grouping, wherein the releasing is performed to improve performance of the processing device.

Feature resource self-tuning and rebalancing

In one aspect, an example methodology implementing the disclosed techniques includes creating, by a first site of a volume that supports active-active bidirectional replication, a local copy of the volume, the local copy of the volume configured to be active. The method also includes enabling, by the first site of the volume, bidirectional write input/output (I/O) mirroring with a second site of the volume. The method further includes, by the second site of the volume, creating a remote copy of the volume, the remote copy of the volume configured to be passive, and enabling bidirectional write I/O mirroring with the first site of the volume.

Active-passive configuration for synchronous remote replication in an active-active metro cluster

An apparatus comprises at least one processing device that includes a processor coupled to a memory. The processing device is configured to receive, by a trace filter system, a trace chunk from a trace buffer associated with a processor core in a processing device, where the trace buffer is comprised of a plurality of trace chunks, to filter, by the trace filter system, the trace chunk, and to store the filtered trace chunk in the trace buffer.

Dynamic selective filtering of persistent tracing

A method, computer program product, and computing system for identifying a replication link failure between a first volume of a first storage array and a second volume of a second storage array, wherein a first storage protocol identifier is associated with each of the first volume and the second volume. One of the first volume and the second volume may be defined as inaccessible and the other of the first volume and the second volume as accessible, thus defining an inaccessible volume and an accessible volume. The first storage protocol identifier associated with the inaccessible volume may be replaced with a second storage protocol identifier. Access to the inaccessible volume may be provided via the second storage protocol identifier.

System and method for promoting fractured volumes

A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving, at a cache memory system, a write request for writing data to a storage system. A data reduction rate may be predicted for the write request. One or more portions of memory within the storage system may be allocated based upon, at least in part, the predicted data reduction rate for the write request. The write request may be flushed from the cache memory system to the allocated one or more portions of memory within the storage system.

System and method for machine learning-driven cache flushing

At least one processing device receives a create-token command from a host device. Responsive to receipt of the create-token command, the processing device creates the token, generates an in-memory snapshot of data in one or more logical address ranges of one or more source storage volumes, associates the in-memory snapshot with the token, and provides the token to the host device. The processing device receives a write-via token command from the host device, the write-via-token command specifying the token and one or more logical address ranges of one or more target storage volumes. Responsive to receipt of the write-via-token command, the processing device determines whether or not differential metadata of the storage system includes one or more entries for the one or more logical address ranges of the one or more source storage volumes, and controls execution of the write-via-token command based at least in part on the determination.

Efficient token management in a storage system

A method is used in host-based caching. A host receives a request for data, and identifies a host in a plurality of hosts that owns the data.

Method and system for host-based caching

A method is used in issuing alerts for storage volumes using machine learning. A machine learning system analyzes Input/Output (I/O) data of a storage volume in a data storage system. The machine learning system is trained with sample I/O data patterns associated with the storage volume. Based on the I/O data, the machine learning system identifies atypical behavior associated with I/O data patterns of the I/O data. The method then issues an alert.

Issuing alerts for storage volumes using machine learning

An apparatus in one embodiment comprises at least one processing device comprising a processor coupled to a memory. The processing device is configured to identify a dataset to be scanned to generate a compression estimate for that dataset, to designate a scan criterion to be utilized in the scan, and for each of a plurality of pages of the dataset, to scan the page, where scanning the page includes performing a computation on the page to obtain a page result, determining whether or not the page result satisfies the designated scan criterion, and responsive to the page result satisfying the designated scan criterion, updating a corresponding entry of a compression estimate table for the dataset. The processing device generates the compression estimate for the dataset based at least in part on contents of the compression estimate table. The scan criterion may comprise, for example, a designated content-based signature prefix, or a designated subset inclusion characteristic defining a polynomial-based signature subspace.

Processing device configured for efficient generation of compression estimates for datasets

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