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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2024
Filed:
Oct. 19, 2022
Netapp, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Arindam Banerjee, Fremont, CA (US);
Daniel McCarthy, Erie, CO (US);
Christopher Cason, Boulder, CO (US);
Ananthan Subramanian, San Ramon, CA (US);
NetApp, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for scaling application and/or storage system functions of a distributed storage system based on a heterogeneous resource pool are provided. According to one embodiment, the distributed storage system has a composable, service-based architecture that provides scalability, resiliency, and load balancing. The distributed storage system includes a cluster of nodes each potentially having differing capabilities in terms of processing, memory, and/or storage. The distributed storage system takes advantage of different types of nodes by selectively instating appropriate services (e.g., file and volume services and/or block and storage management services) on the nodes based on their respective capabilities. Furthermore, disaggregation of these services, facilitated by interposing a frictionless layer (e.g., in the form of one or more globally accessible logical disks) therebetween, enables independent and on-demand scaling of either or both of application and storage system functions within the cluster while making use of the heterogeneous resource pool.