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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2017
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Mikhail Danilov, Saint Petersburg, RU;
Konstantin Buinov, Prague, CZ;
Alexander Rakulenko, Seattle, WA (US);
Gregory Skripko, Seattle, WA (US);
Kirill Gusakov, Saint Petersburg, RU;
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment is related to a method for promoting or demoting data objects in a multi-tier storage system, comprising: creating one or more chunks to store data objects therein at a first tier of the multi-tier storage system, wherein data objects stored in each chunk are associated with a same lifecycle policy and an approximately same creation time; and moving one of the one or more chunks to a second tier in its entirety based on the lifecycle policy associated with the data objects stored in the moved chunk.