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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 25, 2017

Filed:

Sep. 30, 2011
Applicants:

Teng Xu, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Windsor W. Hsu, San Jose, CA (US);

Lan Chin, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

Teng Xu, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Windsor W. Hsu, San Jose, CA (US);

Lan Chin, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/1453 (2013.01); G06F 3/0608 (2013.01); G06F 3/0641 (2013.01); G06F 17/30156 (2013.01); G06F 17/30091 (2013.01); G06F 17/30097 (2013.01); G06F 17/30159 (2013.01);
Abstract

Techniques for data migration of a storage system are described herein. According to one embodiment, for at least one of segments of a file to be migrated from a source storage tier to a target storage tier, a fingerprint of the segment is transmitted to the target storage tier. In response to a response received from the target storage tier indicating that the segment has not been stored in the target tier based on the fingerprint, a storage space of the target tier estimated for migrating the file is incremented. One or more segments of the file that have not been stored in the target tier are migrated if the one or more segments of the file fit in the target storage tier based on the estimated storage space of the target tier.


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