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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2016
Pure Storage, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Par Botes, Mountain View, CA (US);
John Colgrove, Mountain View, CA (US);
John Davis, Mountain View, CA (US);
John Hayes, Mountain View, CA (US);
Robert Lee, Mountain View, CA (US);
Joshua Robinson, Mountain View, CA (US);
Peter Vajgel, Mountain View, CA (US);
Pure Storage, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A plurality of storage nodes cooperating as a storage cluster is provided. Each of the plurality of storage nodes has storage memory. Each storage node of the plurality of storage nodes is configurable to direct erasure coded striping of data of one of an Mode or data segment across the plurality of storage nodes of the storage cluster, with at least one storage node of the plurality of storage nodes having a differing amount of storage capacity of the storage memory from an amount of storage capacity of another storage node in the plurality of storage nodes. A method of storing data in a storage cluster is also provided.