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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 21, 2009
Austin Clements, Cambridge, MA (US);
Irfan Ahmad, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jinyuan LI, Mountain View, CA (US);
Murali Vilayannur, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Austin Clements, Cambridge, MA (US);
Irfan Ahmad, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jinyuan Li, Mountain View, CA (US);
Murali Vilayannur, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A data center comprising plural computer hosts and a storage system external to said hosts is disclosed. The storage system includes storage blocks for storing tangibly encoded data blocks. Each of said hosts includes a deduplicating file system for identifying and merging identical data blocks stored in respective storage blocks into one of said storage blocks so that a first file exclusively accessed by a first host of said hosts and a second file accessed exclusively by a second host of said hosts concurrently refer to the same one of said storage blocks.