Pure Storage, Inc.

Sankara Vaideeswaran

Robert H Lee

Hari Kannan

Gordon James Coleman

Ying Gao

Shantanu R Gupta

Jeffrey Vincent Tofano

Ding Zou

Wing-Yin Chan

A storage system has priority queues for real time-class file system messaging and backup-class file system messaging. The storage system includes servers, coupled as a storage cluster, storage devices and a network coupling the servers and the storage devices. The servers have priority queues. The servers operate the priority queues for messaging from the servers to the storage devices via the network in accordance with a real time-class file system and a backup-class file system. A first subset of the priority queues has higher priority on the network for real time-class file system messaging of at least one type. A second subset of the priority queues has lower priority on the network for backup-class file system messaging of at least one type.

Distributed system dual class of service

A data segment to be written to a set of storage devices is identified, wherein at least one storage device of the set of storage devices has a first allocation unit size that is larger than a second allocation unit size of other storage devices of the set of storage devices. A first subsegment having a first subsegment height corresponding to the second allocation unit size is mapped across the set of storage devices. A second subsegment having a second subsegment height that is a first difference between the first allocation unit size and the second allocation unit size is mapped across a first subset of the set of storage devices. A third subsegment having a third subsegment height that is a second difference between the second allocation unit size and second subsegment height is mapped across a second subset of the set of storage devices.

Intelligent subsegment formation in a heterogeneous storage system

Dual class of service for unified file and object messaging

A priority queue including an order of local data relocation operations to be performed by a plurality of solid-state storage devices is maintained. An indication of a new local data relocation operation is received from a solid-state storage device of the plurality of solid-state storage devices for data stored at the solid-state storage device, the indication including information associated with the data. The new local data relocation operation is inserted into a position in the order of the priority queue based on the information associated with the data.

Queue management for data relocation

A method of operating a storage system having solid-state storage memory with segment level heterogeneity is provided. The method includes mapping data into data segments, and mapping the data segments into data stripes. The method includes writing a first data stripe from a first data segment across a first plurality of blades of the storage system comprising heterogeneous total amounts of the solid-state storage memory per blade, and writing a second data stripe from the first data segment across a second plurality of blades of the storage system.

Segment level heterogeneity

Optimizing local data relocation operations of a storage device of a storage system

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Sankara Vaideeswaran