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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2019
Applicant:
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventor:
Xin Li, Fremont, CA (US);
Assignee:
VMWARE, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 11/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0652 (2013.01); G06F 3/067 (2013.01); G06F 3/0608 (2013.01); G06F 3/0644 (2013.01); G06F 3/0664 (2013.01); G06F 11/1076 (2013.01);
Abstract
Example methods and systems are provided for storage reclamation from a distributed storage system in a virtualized computing environment. The method may comprise: detecting a request to reclaim a target address range associated with the distributed storage system; and mapping the target address range to multiple data chunks. The method may also comprise: in response to identifying a fully-reclaimable stripe spanning across the multiple storage resources, reclaiming particular data chunks associated with the fully-reclaimable stripe, and parity chunk(s) associated with the fully-reclaimable stripe.