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USING A CACHE CLUSTER OF A CLOUD COMPUTING SERVICE AS A VICTIM CACHE

  • US 20160269501A1
  • Filed: 03/11/2015
  • Published: 09/15/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/11/2015
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

  • receiving a set of data from a client computing device at a data storage appliance executing in a distributed computing system;

    confirming by the data storage appliance that a storage space in a primary cache associated with the data storage appliance is below a threshold;

    identifying data that is marked as clean data in the primary cache, the clean data being a portion of the data in the primary cache that is marked as the clean data if the portion of the data is stored at a persistent storage device associated with the data storage appliance;

    evicting the clean data from the primary cache to a cache node of a cache cluster associated with the distributed computing system, the cache cluster acting as a victim cache for the data storage appliance; and

    storing the set of data at the primary cache.

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