Nvidia Corporation

Shayan Askarian Namaghi

Siamak Nazari

David Dejong

Srinivasa Murthy

Tobias Flitsch

Roopesh Tamma

Configuring, distributing, and managing virtual volumes in a storage system are automated and simplified so that administrators may be relieved of such tasks and non-storage administrators can make use of the storage technology. Considering operating system and application requirements, a cloud-based storage management infrastructure can perform the automated process and may employ templates that define necessary information and processes regarding how service processing units are clustered in a storage platform, volume distribution of virtual volumes, volume properties, and presentation to servers.

Allocation, distribution, and configuration of volumes in storage systems

A cluster storage system takes snapshots that are consistent across all storage nodes. The storage system can nearly instantaneously promote a set of consistent snapshots to their respective base volumes to restore the base volumes to be the same as the snapshots. Given these two capabilities, users can restore the system to a recovery point of the user's choice, by turning off storage service I/O, promoting the snapshots constituting the recovery point, rebooting their servers, and resuming storage service I/O.

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Shayan Askarian Namaghi