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Data management for tenants

  • US 10,339,123 B2
  • Filed: 01/15/2015
  • Issued: 07/02/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/01/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A storage system comprising:

  • a processor; and

    a non-transitory storage medium storing data management instructions and storage instructions, the data management instructions executable on the processor to;

    responsive to an access request from a first tenant of a plurality of tenants, access a namespace hierarchical structure comprising a plurality of management trees associated with respective tenants of the plurality of tenants, andidentify a first management tree, corresponding to the first tenant, from among the plurality of management tree, the first management tree being a namespace entity in the namespace hierarchical structure and having data management policies corresponding to the first tenant, wherein the namespace hierarchical structure further comprises storage trees mapped to respective management trees of the plurality of management trees; and

    the storage instructions executable on the processor to;

    identify a first storage tree corresponding to the first management tree, the first storage tree being one of the storage trees, wherein the first storage tree is a namespace entity in the namespace hierarchical instructions, the first storage tree providing for storage capacity management based on storage domains mapped to the first storage tree, the storage domains to store data of the first tenant, andfor the access request, execute a data management policy to manage data in a storage domain of the storage domains mapped to the first storage tree, wherein the data management policy is defined by one of the first management tree and the first storage tree.

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