Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Zhe Tan

Anirudh Badam

Robin Andrew Alexander

Badriddine Khessib

Mihail Gavril Tarta

Laura Marie Caulfield

Xiaozhong Xing

Jian Xu

A system includes reception of a request from a first application to create a virtual open-channel solid state drive associated with a first bandwidth and first capacity, association, in response to the request, of block addresses of a virtual address space of the first application with block addresses of one or more blocks of a first one of a first plurality of channels of a first open-channel solid state drive and with block addresses of one or more blocks of a second one of the first plurality of channels, reception, from the first application, of a first I/O call associated with one or more block addresses of the virtual address space, determination of block addresses of one or more blocks of the first one of the first plurality of channels which are associated with the one or more block addresses of the virtual address space, and execution of the first I/O call on the determined block addresses of one or more blocks of the first one of the first plurality of channels.

Virtualized OCSSDs spanning physical OCSSD channels

A system includes reception of a request from a first application to create a virtual open-channel solid state drive associated with a first bandwidth and first capacity, association, in response to the request, of block addresses of a virtual address space of the first application with block addresses of one or more blocks of a first one of a first plurality of channels of a first open-channel solid state drive and with block addresses of one or more blocks of a second one of a second plurality of channels of a second open-channel solid state drive, reception, from the first application, of a first I/O call associated with one or more block addresses of the virtual address space, determination of block addresses of one or more blocks of the first one of the first plurality of channels which are associated with the one or more block addresses of the virtual address space, and execution of the first I/O call on the determined block addresses of one or more blocks of the first one of the first plurality of channels.

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