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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2023
Pure Storage, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ronald Karr, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Kiron Vijayasankar, Los Altos, CA (US);
Andrew Kleinerman, San Carlos, CA (US);
Joshua Freilich, San Francisco, CA (US);
PURE STORAGE, INC., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of providing block-based storage is described. The method comprises: creating a virtual storage system for storing a dataset, the virtual storage system including a virtual drive layer that includes a plurality of virtual drives for storing at least a portion of the dataset as block data; and a block storage backend layer for storing at least the portion of the dataset as block data, the block storage backend layer including one or more block-based storage devices; receiving an I/O operation with respect to the dataset; and based on the received I/O operation, storing, in the block storage backend layer, an update to the dataset.