Vmware, Inc.

Huseyin Sular

Wenguang Wang

Eric Shannon Knauft

Asit Desai

Varun A Shah

Techniques for combining the metadata and data address spaces of a distributed storage object are provided. In one set of embodiments, a distributed storage system can receive a request to provision a storage object. In response, the distributed storage system can create, in accordance with an erasure coding scheme, one or more capacity components for holding data of the storage object; create, in accordance with a mirroring scheme having an equivalent level of fault tolerance as the erasure coding scheme, one or more metadata components for holding metadata of the storage object; and create a composite object configuration tree for the storage object that includes first and second subtrees, where the first subtree comprises an indication of the mirroring scheme and references to the one or more metadata components, and where the second subtree comprises an indication of the erasure coding scheme and references to the one or more capacity components.

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Huseyin Sular