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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 05, 2011
Nelson Nahum, Tustin, CA (US);
Yair Hershko, Alonei Aba, IL;
Yoav Ossia, Haifa, IL;
Shyam Kaushik V., Karnataka, IN;
Lev Vainblat, Kiriat Yam, IL;
Alex Lyakas, Haifa, IL;
Moshe Melnikov, Ramat Yishay, IL;
Vladimir Popovski, Irvine, CA (US);
Nelson Nahum, Tustin, CA (US);
Yair Hershko, Alonei Aba, IL;
Yoav Ossia, Haifa, IL;
Shyam Kaushik V., Karnataka, IN;
Lev Vainblat, Kiriat Yam, IL;
Alex Lyakas, Haifa, IL;
Moshe Melnikov, Ramat Yishay, IL;
Vladimir Popovski, Irvine, CA (US);
Zadara Storage, Ltd., Nesher, IL;
Abstract
A method for providing virtual private storage array (VPSA) service for cloud users over a computer network includes receiving parameters for the VPSA over the network and creating the VPSA from resources of server computers. Creating the VPSA includes allocating and exposing drives that meets or exceeds specified drive characteristics, drive quantity, and array redundancy criteria to virtual controllers (VCs) in the VPSA, and dedicating parts of processor/memory complexes that each meets or exceeds a specified virtual controller hardware model to the VCs. The VCs run on virtual machines on the dedicated parts of processor/memory complexes on independent server computers. The VCs discover the exposed drives, create a virtual pool from the exposed virtual drives, implement data protection on the virtual pool, create volumes from the virtual pool, expose the volumes over the network to a customer computer, and handle access requests to the volumes from the customer computer.