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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 2023

Filed:

Aug. 24, 2021
Applicant:

Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:

Wenguang Wang, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Long Yang, Fremont, CA (US);

Maxime Austruy, Pully, CH;

Matthew B. Amdur, Cambridge, MA (US);

Eric Knauft, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0804 (2016.01); G06F 12/1009 (2016.01); G06F 16/22 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0804 (2013.01); G06F 12/1009 (2013.01); G06F 16/2246 (2019.01); G06F 2212/1032 (2013.01);
Abstract

The disclosure herein describes storing data using a capacity data storage tier and a smaller performance data storage tier. The capacity data storage tier includes capacity data storage hardware configured to store log-structured leaf pages (LLPs), and the performance data storage tier includes performance data storage hardware. A virtual address table (VAT) includes a set of virtual address entries referencing the LLPs. A tree-structured index includes index nodes referencing the set of virtual address entries of the VAT. Data to be stored is received, and at least a first portion of metadata associated with the received data is stored in the LLPs using the VAT, and at least a second portion of metadata associated with the received data is stored in the performance data storage tier. The architecture reduces space usage of the performance data storage tier.


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