Storage system comprising cluster file system storage nodes and software-defined storage pool in cloud infrastructure
US10191916B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 17, 2016 |
| Grant date | Jan 29, 2019 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 6, 2037 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F11/2069
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An apparatus in one embodiment comprises a multi-tier storage system having at least a front-end storage tier and a back-end storage tier. The multi-tier storage system is implemented at least in part utilizing a plurality of virtual machines of cloud infrastructure. The front-end storage tier comprises a plurality of storage nodes of a cluster file system, with the storage nodes being implemented on respective ones of the virtual machines. The front-end storage tier further comprises a software-defined storage pool accessible to the storage nodes and implemented utilizing local disk resources of respective ones of the virtual machines. The back-end storage tier of the multi-tier storage system comprises at least one object store. At least a subset of the virtual machines may further comprise respective compute nodes configured to access the multi-tier storage system. Other illustrative embodiments include systems, methods and processor-readable storage media.
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