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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 07, 2014
Netapp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sudhir Srinivasan, Acton, MA (US);
Shankar Pasupathy, Milpitas, CA (US);
Minglong Shao, San Jose, CA (US);
Garth Goodson, Fremont, CA (US);
NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A distributed object store in a network storage system uses location-independent global object identifiers (IDs) for stored data objects. The global object ID enables a data object to be seamlessly moved from one location to another without affecting clients of the storage system, i.e., 'transparent migration'. The global object ID can be part of a multilevel object handle, which also can include a location ID indicating the specific location at which the data object is stored, and a policy ID identifying a set of data management policies associated with the data object. The policy ID may be associated with the data object by a client of the storage system, for example when the client creates the object, thus allowing 'inline' policy management. An object location subsystem (OLS) can be used to locate an object when a client request does not contain a valid location ID for the object.