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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 01, 2017
Pure Storage, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
John Colgrove, Los Altos, CA (US);
David Grunwald, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ronald Karr, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ganesh Ramanarayanan, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Pure Storage, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Determining active membership among storage systems synchronously replicating a dataset, where determining active membership includes: detecting, by a particular storage system of the storage systems, a communication fault with one or more of the storage systems, where the particular storage system is configured to request mediation from a mediation target; determining that at least one of the one or more storage systems is configured to request mediation from the mediation target responsive to the communication fault; and responsive to determining that one or more of the storage systems is configured to request mediation from the mediation target, determining whether to request mediation from the mediation target.