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Tenant-level sharding of disks with tenant-specific storage modules to enable policies per tenant in a distributed storage system

  • US 10,671,289 B2
  • Filed: 02/05/2019
  • Issued: 06/02/2020
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/15/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • receiving a request for data storage for a tenant;

    selecting a partition of a disk to be dedicated to the tenant based, at least in part, on one or more policies including a distribution requirement and a replication requirement for data of the tenant, the replication requirement being a number of replicas desired for at least a portion of the data, and the distribution requirement being how far apart or how close together the replicas can be stored relative to each other;

    and allocating the partition for the data of the tenant.

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