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Storage system for provisioning and storing data to a virtual disk

  • US 10,067,722 B2
  • Filed: 07/02/2014
  • Issued: 09/04/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/02/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of provisioning a virtual disk within a storage platform of computer nodes, said method comprising:

  • accessing said storage platform using a computer remote from said storage platform;

    selecting a name and a size for said virtual disk;

    choosing at least one policy for said virtual disk that is respected by said virtual disk within said storage platform;

    selecting a plurality of said computer nodes on which to store metadata of said virtual disk;

    storing said virtual disk name, said size and said at least one policy as said metadata on the selected computer nodes;

    attaching said virtual disk to a controller virtual machine of a computer server located in a compute farm remote from said storage platform, said computer server including a software application executing within a virtual machine of said computer server different from said controller virtual machine; and

    storing an identification of said selected computer nodes at said controller virtual machine of said computer server, whereby said software application of said computer server is able to write into said virtual disk via said controller virtual machine using said identification stored on said controller virtual machine in order to save data into said storage platform after said attaching, and wherein said selected computer nodes may be different from computer nodes where the data of said virtual disk is saved.

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