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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2022
Filed:
Aug. 21, 2019
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abhishek Rajimwale, San Jose, CA (US);
George Mathew, Belmont, CA (US);
Murthy Mamidi, San Jose, CA (US);
Donna Barry Lewis, Holly Springs, NC (US);
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
Described is a system (and method) that intelligently distributes data within a clustered storage environment. To provide such a capability, the system may distribute backup files by considering a source of the data to be backed-up. In particular, the system may leverage the ability of front-end components such as a backup application to perform a granular data source identification of data. Such information may be propagated to back-end components such as a storage filesystem in the form of a data source identifier (e.g. placement tag). The data source identifiers may then be accessed by the clustered storage system to intelligently distribute backup files amongst a set of storage nodes forming a cluster. For example, backup files from the same data source may be stored on the same storage node to obtain the same deduplication efficiency as a single storage system.