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VIRTUALIZED DATA STORAGE SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE USING PREFETCHING AGENT

  • US 20130232215A1
  • Filed: 05/15/2012
  • Published: 09/05/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/05/2012
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method of optimizing a block storage protocol access to a block storage device, the method comprising:

  • receiving a first storage request for access to a first storage block from a storage client;

    receiving storage block prefetching information from a prefetching agent monitoring the storage client;

    using the storage block prefetching information, identifying a first high-level data structure entity corresponding with the first storage block;

    analyzing the first high-level data structure entity to identify at least at a portion of a set of high-level data structure entities likely to be associated with at least one future storage request;

    identifying a second storage block corresponding with the portion of the set of high-level data structure entities; and

    communicating the second storage block from a physical storage array to a storage block cache via a wide-area network.

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