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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2016
Filed:
May. 08, 2014
Springpath, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sandip Agarwala, Cupertino, CA (US);
Abhishek Chaturvedi, Mountain View, CA (US);
Shravan Gaonkar, Gainesville, FL (US);
Mallikarjunan Mahalingam, Cupertino, CA (US);
Bhavesh Mehta, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jyothir Ramanan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Smit Shah, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Faraz Shaikh, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Praveen Vegulla, Cupertino, CA (US);
Krishna Yadappanavar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Springpath, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A distributed storage system that performs automated load balancing is described. In an exemplary embodiment, a storage controller server determines if there is duplicative data in a distributed storage system. In this embodiment, the storage controller server detects a load balancing event in the distributed storage system, where the distributed storage system includes a plurality of virtual nodes distributed across a plurality of physical nodes. In response to detecting the load balancing event, the storage controller server determines that a current virtual node is to move from a source physical node to a destination physical node. In addition, the current virtual node is one of the plurality of virtual nodes and the source and destination physical nodes are in the plurality of physical nodes. The storage controller server further moves the current virtual node from the source physical node to the destination physical node.