Vmware, Inc.

Zhihao Yao

Eric Shannon Knauft

Enning Xiang

Yiqi Xu

Ojan Thornycroft

Kiran R Joshi

Pascal Renauld

Mansi Shah

Sunil Satnur

Pratik Shridhar Desai

Yizhou Luo

Tan Li

The disclosure herein describes enhancing data durability of a base component using a delta component. A delta component is generated based on the base component becoming unavailable. The delta component is configured to include unwritten storage space with an address space matching the base component and a tracking bitmap associated with data blocks of the address space of the delta component. Write operations targeted for the base component are routed to the delta component. Based on the routed write operations, bits associated with data blocks affected by the write operations are changed in the tracking bitmap. Based on the base component becoming available, data blocks affected by routed write operations are identified based on the tracking bitmap and the identified data blocks are synchronized from the delta component to the base component. The delta component is then removed.

Synchronizing a stale component of a distributed object using a delta component during maintenance

The disclosure herein describes placing a delta component of a base component in a target fault domain. A delta component associated with a base component is generated. The generation includes selecting a first fault domain as a target fault domain for the delta component based on the first fault domain including a witness component associated with the distributed data object of the base component. Otherwise, the generation includes selecting a second fault domain as the target fault domain based on the second fault domain including at least one data component that includes a different address space than the base component. Otherwise, the generation includes selecting a third fault domain as the target fault domain based on the third fault domain being unused. Then, the delta component is placed on the target fault domain, whereby data durability of the distributed data object is enhanced, and available fault domains are preserved.

Identifying a fault domain for a delta component of a distributed data object

A shared cache memory can be logically partitioned among different workloads to provide isolation between workloads and avoid excessive resource contention. Each logical partition is apportioned a share of the cache memory, and is exclusive to a respective one of the workloads. Each partition has an initial size allocation. Historical data can be collected and processed for each partition and used to periodically update its size allocation.

Efficient global cache partition and dynamic sizing for shared storage workloads

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Zhihao Yao