USER INTERFACE FOR IDENTIFYING A LOCATION OF A FAILED SECONDARY STORAGE DEVICE

• US 20170192868A1
• Filed: 10/20/2016
• Published: 07/06/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: CommVault Systems Incorporated
• Original Assignee: CommVault Systems Incorporated
• Inventors: KOCHUNNI, Jaidev Oppath, VIJAYAN, Manoj Kumar, ATTARDE, Deepak Raghunath, ANKIREDDYPALLE, Ramachandra Reddy
• Application Number:
  US15/299,281
• Publication Number:
  US 20170192868A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1451 by selection of backup contents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1453 using de-duplication of the data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1662 the resynchronized component or unit being a persistent storage device re-synchronization of failed mirror storage G06F11/2082; rebuild or reconstruction of parity RAID storage G06F11/1008
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2094 Redundant storage or storage space G06F11/2056 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2097 maintaining the standby controller/processing unit updated initialisation or re-synchronisation thereof G06F11/1658 and subgroups
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3006 where the computing system is distributed, e.g. networked systems, clusters, multiprocessor systems multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46; allocation of resources G06F9/50
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3034 where the computing system component is a storage system, e.g. DASD based or network based digital input from or digital output to record carriers G06F3/06; digital recording or reproducing G11B20/18; for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS], H04L67/1097
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3452 Performance evaluation by statistical analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/178 Techniques for file synchronisation in file systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/27 Replication, distribution or synchronisation of data between databases or within a distributed database system; Distributed database system architectures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/805 Real-time
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/815 Virtual
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/82 Solving problems relating to consistency
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/84 Using snapshots, i.e. a logical point-in-time copy of the data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0619 in relation to data integrity, e.g. data losses, bit errors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0632 by initialisation or re-initialisation of storage systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0641 De-duplication techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0647 Migration mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/065 Replication mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0659 Command handling arrangements, e.g. command buffers, queues, command scheduling
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/067 : Distributed or networked storage systems, e.g. storage area networks [SAN], network attached storage [NAS]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0683 : Plurality of storage devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1097 : for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]

Abstract

Systems and methods are provided herein for automatically configuring newly installed secondary storage computing devices and managing secondary storage computing devices when one or more become unavailable. For example, a storage manager can then detect the computing resources available to the newly installed secondary storage computing device, assign a role to the newly installed secondary storage computing device based on the detected computing resources, configure the newly installed secondary storage computing device with deduplication and storage policies used by the other secondary storage computing devices, re-partition secondary storage devices to allocate memory for the newly installed secondary storage computing device, and instruct other secondary storage computing devices to replicate their managed data such that the newly installed secondary storage computing device has access to the replicated data.

Claims

1. A networked information management system configured to identify disk failures, the networked information management system comprising:

a first secondary storage device comprising a disk;

a first data storage computer comprising first computer hardware, wherein the first data storage computer is configured to;

transmit a write request to the first secondary storage device, wherein the write request comprises a request to write first data to the disk of the first secondary storage device,

transmit a read request to the first secondary storage device, wherein the read request comprises a request to read the first data from the disk of the first secondary storage device,

determine that the disk of the first secondary storage device is failing based on results received from the first secondary storage device in response to the read request, wherein the results comprise a unique identifier of the disk of the first secondary storage device; and

a storage manager comprising second computer hardware configured to;

receive, from the first data storage computer, an indication that the disk of the first secondary storage device is failing and the unique identifier,

identify a location of the disk of the first secondary storage device based on the unique identifier,

generate user interface data that causes a user device to display a user interface, wherein the user interface data comprises a graphical representation of locations of the disk of the first secondary storage device and other disks of the first secondary storage device, and wherein the user interface data comprises a notification identifying the location of the disk of the first secondary storage device in the graphical representation, and

transmit the user interface data to the user device.

2. The networked information management system of claim 1, wherein the location of the disk of the first secondary storage device comprises an indication of a bay and a slot in the bay in which the disk of the first secondary storage device is located.

3. The networked information management system of claim 1, wherein the notification comprises at least one of a marking identifying the location of the disk of the first secondary storage device or text identifying the location of the disk of the first secondary storage device.

4. The networked information management system of claim 1, further comprising a management database configured to store the unique identifier of the disk of the first secondary storage device and a location of the disk of the first secondary storage device.

5. The networked information management system of claim 4, wherein the storage manager is further configured to query the management database using the unique identifier received from the first data storage computer to identify the location of the disk of the first secondary storage device.

6. The networked information management system of claim 1, wherein the user interface data further comprises text that instructs a user to replace the disk of the first secondary storage device.

7. The networked information management system of claim 1, wherein the first data storage computer is further configured to periodically check a status of the first secondary storage device.

8. The networked information management system of claim 1, wherein the unique identifier comprises a serial number of the disk of the first secondary storage device.

9. A computer-implemented method for identifying disk failures, the computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving, from a first data storage computer, an indication that a disk of a first secondary storage device is failing and a unique identifier of the disk of the first secondary storage device;

identifying a location of the disk of the first secondary storage device based on the unique identifier;

generating user interface data that causes a user device to display a user interface, wherein the user interface data comprises a graphical representation of locations of the disk of the first secondary storage device and other disks of the first secondary storage device, and wherein the user interface data comprises a notification identifying the location of the disk of the first secondary storage device in the graphical representation; and

transmitting the user interface data to the user device.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, wherein the location of the disk of the first secondary storage device comprises an indication of a bay and a slot in the bay in which the disk of the first secondary storage device is located.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, wherein the notification comprises at least one of a marking identifying the location of the disk of the first secondary storage device or text identifying the location of the disk of the first secondary storage device.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, wherein a management database is configured to store the unique identifier of the disk of the first secondary storage device and a location of the disk of the first secondary storage device.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 12, wherein identifying a location of the disk of the first secondary storage device further comprises querying the management database using the unique identifier received from the first data storage computer to identify the location of the disk of the first secondary storage device.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, wherein the user interface data further comprises text that instructs a user to replace the disk of the first secondary storage device.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, further comprising:

receiving an indication that the disk of the first secondary storage device is replaced with a second disk; and

instructing the first secondary storage device to perform a repair operation on the second disk in response to receiving the indication that the disk of the first secondary storage device is replaced with the second disk.

16. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, further comprising:

receiving an indication that the disk of the first secondary storage device is replaced with a second disk; and

modifying the user interface data to remove the notification identifying the location of the disk of the first secondary storage device in the graphical representation in response to receiving the indication that the disk of the first secondary storage device is replaced with the second disk.

17. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, wherein receiving an indication that a disk of a first secondary storage device is failing further comprises receiving the indication that the disk of the first secondary storage device is failing as a result of a periodic check of a status of the disk of the first secondary storage device by the first data storage computer.

18. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, wherein the unique identifier comprises a serial number of the disk of the first secondary storage device.

19. A networked information management system configured to identify disk failures, the networked information management system comprising:

a first secondary storage device comprising a disk;

a first data storage computer comprising first computer hardware, wherein the first data storage computer is configured to receive an indication that the disk of the first secondary storage device is failing as a result of a periodic status check performed by the disk of the first secondary storage device; and

a storage manager comprising second computer hardware configured to;

receive, from the first data storage computer, the indication that the disk of the first secondary storage device is failing and a unique identifier associated with the disk of the first secondary storage device,

identify a location of the disk of the first secondary storage device based on the unique identifier,

generate user interface data that causes a user device to display a user interface, wherein the user interface data comprises a graphical representation of locations of the disk of the first secondary storage device and other disks of the first secondary storage device, and wherein the user interface data comprises a notification identifying the location of the disk of the first secondary storage device in the graphical representation, and

transmit the user interface data to the user device.

20. The networked information management system of claim 19, wherein the notification comprises at least one of a marking identifying the location of the disk of the first secondary storage device or text identifying the location of the disk of the first secondary storage device.