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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 01, 2019
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Jeremy O'Hare, Westborough, MA (US);
Alexandre Lemay, Deux-Montagnes, CA;
Matthew Fredette, Belmont, MA (US);
Sorin Faibish, Newton, MA (US);
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A method and system for sharing data reduction metadata with storage systems. Specifically, the disclosed method and system entail communicating, to a storage system, information known to host devices from which data (submitted to-be-written to the storage system) may originate. This a priori reduction-pertinent information, which may include the potential to improve storage system efficiency and/or performance at least with respect to data reduction processing of the data submitted to-be-written, had previously been considered incommunicable to the storage system. The disclosed method and system, however, lift this previous limitation and enable communication of any storage system performance-improving information, applicable to the data submitted to-be-written, to the storage system.