Cloud tiering

• US 9,462,055 B1
• Filed: 03/31/2014
• Issued: 10/04/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/24/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Emc IP Holding Company LLC (Dell Technologies Inc.)
• Original Assignee: EMC Corporation (Dell Technologies Inc.)
• Inventors: Herrin, Kevin, Gibson, Braden, Zenker, Ryan, Zhang, Ming
• Primary Examiner(s): Keehn, Richard G
• Application Number:
  US14/230,173
• Time in Patent Office: 918 Days
• Field of Search: 709/232
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/1844 Management specifically adapted to replicated 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: H04L 45/44 Distributed routing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1001 for accessing one among a plurality of replicated servers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes

Abstract

A method, system, and program product for migrating data between clouds based on the performance characteristics of the clouds via a cloud router and a cloud migrator.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a cloud router;

wherein the cloud router is communicatively coupled to clouds;

a cloud migrator;

wherein the cloud migrator is communicatively coupled to the clouds; and

computer-executable logic enabling execution across one or more processors of;

migrating data between the clouds based on the performance characteristics of the clouds;

wherein the cloud router passively migrates data between the clouds by redirecting a data write from a first cloud to second cloud to store data requested to be written to the first cloud in the second cloud;

wherein the cloud migrator actively migrates data between the clouds by moving data from the first cloud to the second cloud;

wherein the cloud router has a map of the location of the data in the clouds;

wherein the cloud router tracks data being migrated in the map.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the logic further enables data accessed more frequently to be migrated to a faster cloud.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the logic further enables data accessed less frequently to be migrated to a slower cloud.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the cloud router further passively migrates data between the clouds by, in response to a read request to the first cloud, reading the data from the first cloud, writing the data to the second cloud, servicing the read request, and deleting the data from the first cloud;

wherein the passive migration is in a manner transparent to the initiator of a write request and a read request.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein once the data has been actively migrated by the cloud migrator, updating a mapping in the cloud router to indicate that the data has been transferred between the first cloud and the second cloud.

6. A computer implemented method for use in cloud tiering, the method comprising:

migrating data between clouds based on the performance characteristics of the clouds via a cloud router communicatively coupled to the clouds and a cloud migrator communicatively coupled to the clouds;

wherein the cloud router passively migrates data between the clouds by redirecting a data write from a first cloud to second cloud to store data requested to be written to the first cloud in the second cloud;

wherein the cloud migrator actively migrates data between the clouds by moving data from the first cloud to the second cloud;

wherein the cloud router has a map of the location of the data in the clouds;

wherein the cloud router tracks data being migrated in the map.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

enabling data accessed more frequently to be migrated to a faster cloud.

8. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

enabling data accessed less frequently to be migrated to a slower cloud.

9. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

migrating passively, by the cloud router, data between the clouds by, in response to a read request to the first cloud by;

reading the data from the first cloud;

writing the data to the second cloud;

servicing the read request; and

deleting the data from the first cloud;

wherein the passive migration is in a manner transparent to the initiator of a write request and a read request.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

updating a mapping in the cloud router to indicate that the data has been transferred between the first cloud and the second cloud once the data has been actively migrated by the cloud migrator.

11. A computer program product for use in cloud migration comprising:

a non-transitory computer readable medium encoded with computer executable program code for using read signatures in cloud tiering, the code configured to enable the execution of;

migrating, via a cloud router communicatively coupled to the clouds and a cloud migrator communicatively coupled to the clouds, data between clouds based on the performance characteristics of the clouds;

wherein the cloud router passively migrates data between the clouds by redirecting a data write from a first cloud to second cloud to store data requested to be written to the first cloud in the second cloud;

wherein the cloud migrator actively migrates data between the clouds by moving data from the first cloud to the second cloud;

wherein the cloud router has a map of the location of the data in the clouds;

wherein the cloud router tracks data being migrated in the map.

12. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the code is further configured to enable the execution of:

enabling data accessed more frequently to be migrated to a faster cloud.

13. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the code is further configured to enable the execution of:

enabling data accessed less frequently to be migrated to a slower cloud.

14. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the code is further configured to enable the execution of:

migrating passively, by the cloud router, data between the clouds by, in response to a read request to the first cloud by;

reading the data from the first cloud;

writing the data to the second cloud;

servicing the read request; and

deleting the data from the first cloud;

wherein the passive migration is in a manner transparent to the initiator of a write request and a read request.

15. The computer program product of claim 14, wherein the code is further configured to enable the execution of:

updating a mapping in the cloud router to indicate that the data has been transferred between the first cloud and the second cloud once the data has been actively migrated by the cloud migrator.

16. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the code is further configured to enable the execution of:

making a determination to relocate the data comprises the data being at least one of cold data and hot data.

17. The computer program product of claim 11 wherein the code is further configured to enable the execution of:

making a determination to relocate the data comprises the cloud being at least one of fast cloud, slow cloud, and medium cloud.

18. The computer program product of claim 16 wherein the code is further configured to enable the execution of:

enabling data accessed more frequently to be migrated to a fast cloud; and

enabling data accessed less frequently to be migrated to a slow cloud.

19. The computer program product of claim 18 wherein the code is further configured to enable the execution of:

migrating the data from a source cloud to a destination cloud, wherein migrating entails receiving an object from the source cloud and writing the object to the destination cloud.

20. The computer program product of claim 19 wherein the code is further configured to enable the execution of:

updating a map to the data to indicate new location of the data, wherein the new location is the destination cloud.