Storage volume backup management for multi-tenant environments

• US 10,013,189 B1
• Filed: 12/14/2015
• Issued: 07/03/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/14/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Emc IP Holding Company LLC (Dell Technologies Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Emc IP Holding Company LLC (Dell Technologies Inc.)
• Inventors: Yang, Xing, Durazzo, Kenneth
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Hiep
• Application Number:
  US14/967,555
• Time in Patent Office: 932 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/14 Error detection or correction of the data by redundancy in operation G06F11/16 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1458 Management of the backup or restore process
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/815 Virtual middleware or OS functionality using virtual machines to implement generic software techniques for error detection or fault masking G06F11/1484
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0619 in relation to data integrity, e.g. data losses, bit errors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/065 Replication mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0665 at area level, e.g. provisioning of virtual or logical volumes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/067 Distributed or networked storage systems, e.g. storage area networks [SAN], network attached storage [NAS]

Abstract

An apparatus comprises at least one host device for hosting respective tenants of a multi-tenant environment. The apparatus further comprises a storage platform coupled to the host device and implementing storage resources for utilization by respective tenants, and a storage controller associated with the host device comprising a storage volume creation functionality and a storage volume backup functionality. The storage volume creation functionality is configured to provision portions of the storage resources to create at least one storage volume. The storage volume backup functionality is configured to provision portions of the storage resources for performing one or more respective storage volume backup or restore processes, wherein a container is respectively provisioned for each storage volume backup or restore process.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

at least one host device for hosting respective tenants of a multi-tenant environment;

a storage platform coupled to the at least one host device and implementing storage resources for utilization by respective tenants; and

a storage controller associated with the at least one host device comprising one or more nodes configured to implement storage volume creation functionality and storage volume backup functionality by provisioning portions of the storage resources, wherein the one or more nodes are implemented via at least one processing device comprising a processor operatively coupled to a memory, and, wherein;

in implementing the storage volume creation functionality, the storage controller is configured to create at least one storage volume for one or more of the tenants; and

in implementing the storage volume backup functionality, the storage controller is configured to create one or more backup containers for performing a storage volume backup or restore process.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the storage volume creation functionality is implemented on a separate node from the storage volume backup functionality.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein each backup container comprises a block storage backup component.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein each backup container comprises an object storage driver.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the storage volume backup functionality is managed in accordance with a container orchestration engine.

6. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the container orchestration engine is implemented on the storage controller.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein each of the one or more respective storage volume backup or restore processes are initiated in response to a request received by the storage controller.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the storage controller implements an open-source software platform.

9. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the host device comprises at least one processor coupled to a memory and wherein at least a portion of the storage controller is implemented by the processor executing software stored in the memory.

10. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the storage platform comprises at least one of a storage fabric and a storage array.

11. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the one or more nodes of the storage controller comprise:

a controller node configured to receive and schedule client requests;

a volume node configured to provide the storage volume creation functionality; and

one or more backup nodes configured to provide the storage volume backup functionality.

12. An information processing system comprising the apparatus of claim 1.

13. A method comprising:

implementing, by one or more nodes of a storage controller associated with at least one host device for hosting respective tenants of a multi-tenant environment, at least one of storage volume creation functionality and storage volume backup functionality by provisioning portions of storage resources implemented for utilization by respective ones of the tenants;

wherein;

in implementing the storage volume creation functionality, the storage controller is configured to create one or more storage volumes for one or more of the tenants; and

in implementing the storage volume backup functionality, the storage controller in configured to create one or more backup containers for performing a storage volume backup or restore process for a given storage volume implemented for the given tenant;

wherein the one or more nodes are implemented via at least one processing device comprising a processor operatively coupled to a memory.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the implementation of the storage volume creation functionality utilizes a block storage-based volume creation service.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the implementation of the storage volume backup functionality utilizes a container orchestration service.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein the creation of the backup version of the given storage volume utilizes an object storage-based service.

17. A non-transitory processor-readable storage medium having stored therein program code of one or more software programs, wherein the program code, when executed by one or more processing devices of one or more nodes of a storage controller associated with at least one host device for hosting respective tenants of a multi-tenant environment, causes the one or more processing devices to:

implement at least one of storage volume creation functionality and storage volume backup functionality by provisioning portions of storage resources implemented for utilization by respective ones of the tenants;

wherein;

in implementing the storage volume creation functionality, the one or more processing devices are configured to create one or more storage volumes implemented for one or more of the tenants; and

in implementing the storage volume backup functionality, the one or more processing devices are configured to create one or more backup containers for performing a storage volume backup or restore process for a given storage volume implemented for the given tenant.

18. The processor-readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the implementation of the storage volume creation functionality utilizes a block storage-based volume creation service.

19. The processor-readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the implementation of the storage volume backup functionality utilizes a container orchestration service.

20. The processor-readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the creation of the backup version of the given storage volume utilizes an object storage-based service.