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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2018
Applicant:
Pure Storage, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventors:
Jianting Cao, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Martin Harriman, Aptos, CA (US);
John Hayes, Mountain View, CA (US);
Cary Sandvig, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Pure Storage, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0619 (2013.01); G06F 3/0646 (2013.01); G06F 3/0665 (2013.01); G06F 3/0689 (2013.01); G06F 3/0608 (2013.01); G06F 3/0662 (2013.01);
Abstract
Attributing consumed storage capacity among entities storing data in a storage array includes: identifying a data object stored in the storage array and shared by a plurality of entities, where the data object occupies an amount of storage capacity of the storage array; and attributing to each entity a fractional portion of the amount of storage capacity occupied by the data object.