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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2007
William W. Chow, Los Angeles, CA (US);
John Logan, Long Beach, CA (US);
William W. Chow, Los Angeles, CA (US);
John Logan, Long Beach, CA (US);
QLOGIC, Corporation, Aliso Viejo, CA (US);
Abstract
Method and system for managing metadata for a plurality of storage platforms that provide virtualization services is provided. The method includes requesting a memory chunk for storing metadata; wherein a data processing agent operating in a storage platform requests the memory chunk and a centralized metadata controller for the plurality of storage platforms receives the request for the memory chunk; determining the memory chunk size and allocating the memory chunk from a pool of memory chunks; and assigning the allocated memory chunk to a virtualization mapping object.