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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 05, 2012
Applicants:
John K. Fulbright, Evans, GA (US);
Clinton D. Knight, Apex, NC (US);
Timothy E. Nicholson, Cary, NC (US);
Inventors:
John K. Fulbright, Evans, GA (US);
Clinton D. Knight, Apex, NC (US);
Timothy E. Nicholson, Cary, NC (US);
Assignee:
NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30867 (2013.01); G06F 17/30876 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems and methods are disclosed for rapidly provisioning of virtual storage objects, whereby such rapid provisioning does not require clearing of physical storage resources when initialized for use in a virtual storage object. Accordingly, a virtual storage object of embodiments of the invention is provisioned without the time-intensive process of clearing (e.g., writing zeroes to) data blocks of the physical storage resources.