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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2011
Alexander Aizman, Mountain View, CA (US);
Vineeth Remanan Pillai, Mountain View, CA (US);
Alexander Aizman, Mountain View, CA (US);
Vineeth Remanan Pillai, Mountain View, CA (US);
Nexenta System, Inc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and system is disclosed for providing a heterogeneous data storage comprising a plurality of storage devices of different types with respect to device vendor, model, capacity, performance and/or function. The present invention employs data access mechanisms specific to the type of underlying storage and the type of data to be stored or retrieved, and provides for integrated remote mirroring, disaster recovery and hierarchical storage management (HSM), as well as improved I/O performance and life expectancy of storage disks. A method of writing to and reading from heterogeneous data volume is also disclosed.