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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2010
David Tze-si Wu, San Francisco, CA (US);
Huy Nguyen, Cupertino, CA (US);
Adityashankar Kini, San Carlos, CA (US);
Dilip Kumar Uppugandla, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Chinmaya Manjunath, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
David Tze-Si Wu, San Francisco, CA (US);
Huy Nguyen, Cupertino, CA (US);
Adityashankar Kini, San Carlos, CA (US);
Dilip Kumar Uppugandla, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Chinmaya Manjunath, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
RIVERBED TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Virtual storage arrays consolidate branch data storage at data centers connected via wide area networks. Virtual storage arrays appear to storage clients as local data storage; however, virtual storage arrays actually store data at the data center. Virtual storage arrays overcome bandwidth and latency limitations of the wide area network by predicting and prefetching storage blocks, which are then cached at the branch location. Virtual storage arrays leverage an understanding of the semantics and structure of high-level data structures associated with storage blocks to predict which storage blocks are likely to be requested by a storage client. Virtual storage arrays may use proximity-based, heuristic-based, and access time-based prefetching to predict high-level data structure entities that are likely to be accessed by the storage client. Virtual storage arrays then identify and prefetch storage blocks corresponding with the predicted high-level data structure entities.