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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2016
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Edward J Goggin, Concord, MA (US);
Sandeep Rangaswamy, Mountain View, CA (US);
Kiran Joshi, San Jose, CA (US);
Srinath Premachandran, Fremont, CA (US);
Gopala Suryanarayana, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Radu Berinde, Cambridge, MA (US);
Wenguang Wang, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Jorge Guerra Delgado, Fremont, CA (US);
Jin Zhang, Fremont, CA (US);
Radhika Vullikanti, Foster City, CA (US);
VMWARE, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
In accordance with the present disclosure, files may be deduplicated in a distributed storage system having a plurality of storage volumes. A uniqueness metric for each file may indicate a degree of deduplication of the respective data files in the given storage volume. The uniqueness metric may be used to identify files for rebalancing in the distributed storage system. The uniqueness metric may be efficiently calculated with enough accuracy using a sampling methodology.