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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2018
Filed:
May. 31, 2016
Systems and methods for implementing an enterprise-class converged compute-network-storage appliance
Springpath, Llc, Wilmington, DE (US);
Sandip Agarwala, Cupertino, CA (US);
Abhishek Chaturvedi, Mountain View, CA (US);
Shravan Gaonkar, Gainesville, FL (US);
Mallikarjunan Mahalingam, Cupertino, CA (US);
Sazzala Reddy, Los Altos, CA (US);
Smit Shah, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Faraz Shaikh, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Praveen Vegulla, Cupertino, CA (US);
Krishna Yadappanavar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jeffrey A. Zabarsky, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A distributed storage system that dispatches an input/output request is described. In an exemplary embodiment, a storage controller client receives the input/output request, wherein the distributed storage system includes the storage controller client, a plurality of storage controller servers, a plurality of virtual nodes distributed among a plurality of physical nodes, and each of the plurality of physical nodes is hosted on one of the plurality of storage controller servers. The storage controller client further computes a target virtual node for the input/output request, where the target virtual node is one of the plurality of virtual nodes. Using the computed target virtual node, the storage controller client determines a target physical node that corresponds to the target virtual node, where the target physical node is one of the plurality of physical nodes. In addition, the storage controller client dispatches the input/output request to a target storage controller that corresponds to the target physical node, wherein the target storage controller server is one of the plurality of storage controller servers. In addition, the virtual node includes a set of one or more mirrored copies across different fault domains for ensuring resiliency and high availability.