Storage system, storage system control method, and storage control device

• US 8,930,328 B2
• Filed: 11/13/2012
• Issued: 01/06/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/13/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Nemoto, Jun, Kamei, Hitoshi, Sutoh, Atsushi
• Primary Examiner(s): Beausoliel, Jr., Robert
• Assistant Examiner(s): ALLEN, NICHOLAS E
• Application Number:
  US13/702,219
• Publication Number:
  US 20140136491A1
• Time in Patent Office: 784 Days
• US Class Current: 707/692
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/1748 De-duplication implemented within the file system, e.g. based on file segments de-duplication techniques in storage systems for the management of data blocks G06F3/0641
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0608 Saving storage space on storage systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0641 De-duplication techniques
• 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 3/0673 Single storage device

Abstract

It is provided a storage system including a storage device for storing data, and a controller for controlling data read/write in the storage device. The controller includes a processor for executing a program, and a memory for storing the program that is executed by the processor. The processor executes deduplication processing for converting a duplicate part of data that is stored in the storage device into shared data, and calculates a distributed capacity consumption, which represents a capacity of a storage area that is used by a user in the storage device, by using a size of the data prior to the deduplication processing and a count of pieces of data referring to the shared data that is referred to by this data.

Claims

1. A storage system, comprising:

a storage device configured to store data; and

a controller configured to control data read/write in the storage device, wherein the controller includes;

a processor configured to execute a program; and

a memory configured to store the program that is executed by the processor, and

wherein the processor is configured to;

execute deduplication processing for converting a duplicate part of data stored in the storage device into shared data;

calculate a distributed capacity consumption, which represents a capacity of a storage area that is used by a user in the storage device, by using a distributed size of the data prior to the deduplication processing and a count of pieces of data referring to the shared data referred to by the data;

subtract a differential between a data size of the data stored in the storage device that are a target of the deduplication processing and the distributed size of the data after the deduplication processing from the distributed capacity consumption of the user; and

subtract a distributed data differential that is calculated by newly performing deduplication on the data that are the target of the deduplication processing from distributed capacity consumption of the other user who holds other pieces of data referring to the shared data referred to by the data that are the target of the deduplication processing.

2. The storage system according to claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to calculate the distributed size by dividing the size of the data prior to the deduplication processing by the count of pieces of data referring to the shared data referred to by the data.

3. The storage system according to claim 1,

wherein an upper limit is determined for the capacity of the storage area that is used by the user, and

wherein the processor is configured to use the calculated distributed capacity consumption to manage at least one of the capacity of the storage area that is used by the user and a free capacity of the storage device that is available to the user.

4. The storage system according to claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to:

not add a size of data to be written to the distributed capacity consumption in a case where a data write request for overwrite of the data processed by the deduplication processing is received; and

add the size of the data to be written to the distributed capacity consumption in a case where a data write request of other types is received.

5. The storage system according to claim 4, wherein the processor is configured to calculate the distributed capacity consumption with the size of the data prior to the deduplication processing as an upper limit.

6. The storage system according to claim 5, wherein the processor is configured to execute deduplication canceling processing for dissolving a deduplication relation by deleting a reference to the shared data in a case where the distributed capacity consumption of the data exceeds the size of the data prior to the deduplication processing.

7. The storage system according to claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to use the calculated distributed capacity consumption to calculate a charge to a user who uses the storage system.

8. The storage system according to claim 7, wherein the processor is configured to use a difference between the calculated distributed capacity consumption and the size of the data prior to the deduplication processing to calculate the charge to the user.

9. The storage system according to claim 2, wherein the processor is configured to output data including the calculated distributed capacity consumption and the size of the data prior to the deduplication processing, which are associated with each other.

10. A storage system, comprising:

a storage device configured to store data; and

a controller configured to control data read/write in the storage device,

wherein the controller includes;

a processor configured to execute a program; and

a memory configured to store the program that is executed by the processor, and

wherein the processor is configured to;

execute deduplication processing for converting a duplicate part of data stored in the storage device into shared data;

calculate a distributed capacity consumption, which represents a capacity of a storage area that is used by a user in the storage device, by using a distributed size of the data prior to the deduplication processing and a count of pieces of data referring to the shared data referred to by the data;

execute deduplication canceling processing for canceling sharing of the duplicate part of the data;

add a differential between the distributed size of the data prior to the deduplication processing canceling processing and the size of the data prior to the deduplication processing to the distributed capacity consumption of the user; and

reflect a distributed data differential that is calculated by newly canceling deduplication of the data that are a target of the deduplication canceling processing on the distributed capacity consumption of the other user who holds other pieces of data referring to the shared data that is referred to by data that are the target of the deduplication canceling processing.

11. A method of controlling a storage system,

the storage system including a storage device configured to store data, and a controller configured to control for controlling data read/write in the storage device,

the controller including a processor configured to execute for executing a program and a memory configured to store the program that is executed by the processor,

the method including steps of:

executing, by the processor, deduplication processing for converting a duplicate part of data stored in the storage device into shared data; and

calculating, by the processor, a distributed capacity consumption, which represents a capacity of a storage area that is used by a user in the storage device, by using a distributed size of the data prior to the deduplication processing and a count of pieces of data referring to the shared data referred to by the data;

subtracting, by the processor, a differential between a data size of the data stored in the storage device that are a target of the deduplication processing and the distributed size of the data after the deduplication processing from the distributed capacity consumption of the user; and

subtracting, by the processor, a distributed data differential that is calculated by newly performing deduplication on the data that are the target of the deduplication processing from distributed capacity consumption of the other user who holds other pieces of data referring to the shared data referred to by the data that are the target of the deduplication processing.

12. The method of controlling a storage system according to claim 11, further comprising calculating, by the processor, the distributed size by dividing the size of the data prior to the deduplication processing by the count of pieces of data referring to the shared data referred to by the data.

13. The method of controlling a storage system according to claim 11,

wherein an upper limit to the capacity of the storage area that is used by the user is determined for the storage system, and

wherein the method includes a step of using, by the processor, the calculated distributed capacity consumption to manage at least one of the capacity of the storage area that is used by the user and a free capacity of the storage device that is available to the user.

14. A storage controller for controlling data read/write in a storage device configured to store data, comprising:

a processor configured to execute a program; and

a memory configured to store the program that is executed by the processor, wherein the processor is configured to;

execute deduplication processing for converting a duplicate part of data stored in the storage device into shared data; and

calculate a distributed capacity consumption, which represents a capacity of a storage area that is used by a user in the storage device, by using a size of the data prior to the deduplication processing and a count of pieces of data referring to the shared data referred to by the data;

subtract a differential between a data size of the data stored in the storage device that are a target of the deduplication processing and the distributed size of the data after the deduplication processing from the distributed capacity consumption of the user; and

subtract a distributed data differential that is calculated by newly performing deduplication on the data that are the target of the deduplication processing from distributed capacity consumption of the other user who holds other pieces of data referring to the shared data that are referred to by the data that are the target of the deduplication processing.