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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 09, 2012
Rajesh Sundaram, Mountain View, CA (US);
Douglas Paul Doucette, San Diego, CA (US);
David Grunwald, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jeffrey S. Kimmel, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Ashish Prakash, Cary, NC (US);
Rajesh Sundaram, Mountain View, CA (US);
Douglas Paul Doucette, San Diego, CA (US);
David Grunwald, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jeffrey S. Kimmel, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Ashish Prakash, Cary, NC (US);
NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Among other things, one or more techniques and/or systems are provided for storing data within a hybrid storage aggregate comprising a lower-latency storage tier and a higher-latency storage tier. In particular, frequently accessed data, randomly accessed data, and/or short lived data may be stored (e.g., read caching and/or write caching) within the lower-latency storage tier. Infrequently accessed data and/or sequentially accessed data may be stored within the higher-latency storage tier. Because the hybrid storage aggregate may comprise a single logical container derived from the higher-latency storage tier and the lower-latency storage tier, additional storage and/or file system functionality may be implemented across the storage tiers. For example, deduplication functionality, caching functionality, backup/restore functionality, and/or other functionality may be provided through a single file system (or other type of arrangement) and/or a cache map implemented within the hybrid storage aggregate.