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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2022
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Prakash Venkatanarayanan, Framingham, MA (US);
David L. Black, Acton, MA (US);
Rivka Matosevich, Zichron Ya'acov, IL;
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A method is disclosed of copy-free, non-disruptive conversion of a storage volume from a first access protocol to a distinct second access protocol. In a preparatory step a destination volume accessible according to the second access protocol is created. A pairing of a token and a handle is created, the token representing data content of the source volume, the handle being associated with the token and usable to represent the source volume according to the second protocol. In response to a subsequent copy-with-handle command, and based on the pairing of the handle with the token, metadata of the destination volume is populated to reference, without copying, the underlying stored data, the destination volume thereafter functioning as the storage volume accessed using the second protocol.