System and method for managing a non-volatile storage resource as a shared resource in a distributed system
US10089013B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Aug 28, 2016 |
| Grant date | Oct 2, 2018 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 29, 2037 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F2211/1088
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A data storage system has a plurality of hosts that request writes of data to a relatively high-performance storage device (RHPSD) such as NVRAM, which may be one of a plurality of RHPSDs in a plurality of storage nodes. A storage management system receives the write requests and writes received data to the RHPSD. According to an allocation policy, the storage management system indicates to at least one of the hosts that it should limit its use of RHPSD and it then discards data upon indication from that host to do so. Before being discarded from the RHPSD, the data may be written to a persistent storage device.
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