The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2024
Filed:
May. 08, 2023
Pure Storage, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Goutham Rao, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Vinod Jayaraman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ganesh Sangle, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Pure Storage, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An illustrative method includes receiving a request to create a storage volume; identifying, based on the request and on a configuration file propagated among a plurality of storage nodes in a cluster, status indicators of the storage nodes; identifying, based on the request, a size of the storage volume; identifying, based on the request, a replication factor representing a number of storage nodes that are to be replicated within a cluster for the storage volume; identifying, based on one or more characteristics associated with the storage volume, a traffic priority for the storage volume, the traffic priority representing a hierarchy that determines and prioritizes which traffic is allocated to available hardware and network resources in a particular order; creating, based on the status indicators, the size, the replication factor, and the traffic priority, the storage volume on one or more of the plurality of storage nodes.