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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2015
Netapp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Atul Ramesh Pandit, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael R. Eisler, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Sisir Shekhar, Bihar, IN;
Vijay Mohan Deshmukh, Fremont, CA (US);
NETAPP, INC., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
An enterprise may use file level and block level storage for operational access to reap the performance benefits, and use object storage for back-up storage and scale out. Data of objects and objects themselves can be organized to allow for efficient storage management operations, including storage snapshot operations and deduplication operations. A root file container can be represented in object storage with a metadata object ('file container object') and child file container can be represented in object storage with a metadata object ('file group object'). Each file can be represented in object storage with a metadata object that indicates the data units of the file depending upon the storage technology hosting the file (e.g., a file data block in file level storage). The data units of the file can be represented in object storage as elements of a data object.