Regulating a replication operation
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1. A method comprising:
- determining at least one metric associated with a replication operation to replicate at least a portion of a first object stored on a first entity comprising one of a client, a first storage appliance and a second storage appliance onto a second entity comprising another one of the client, the first storage appliance and the second storage appliance, wherein the replication operation comprises compressing data, wherein the first entity is capable of compressing the data and the second entity is capable of compressing the data; and
regulating the replication operation, the regulating comprising selecting whether the first entity or the second entity is to perform the compressing of the data based at least in part on the at least one metric.
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Abstract
A technique includes determining at least one metric associated with a replication operation to replicate at least a portion of a first object stored on one of a client, a first storage appliance and a second storage appliance onto another one of the client, the first storage appliance and the second storage appliance. The technique further includes regulating the replication operation including selectively regulating at least one parameter of the replication operation based on the metric(s).
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1. A method comprising:
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determining at least one metric associated with a replication operation to replicate at least a portion of a first object stored on a first entity comprising one of a client, a first storage appliance and a second storage appliance onto a second entity comprising another one of the client, the first storage appliance and the second storage appliance, wherein the replication operation comprises compressing data, wherein the first entity is capable of compressing the data and the second entity is capable of compressing the data; and regulating the replication operation, the regulating comprising selecting whether the first entity or the second entity is to perform the compressing of the data based at least in part on the at least one metric. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. An apparatus comprising:
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a metric analyzer comprising a hardware processor to determine at least one metric associated with a replication operation to replicate at least part of a first object stored on a first entity comprising one of a client, a first storage appliance and a second storage appliance onto a second entity comprising another one of the client, the first storage appliance and the second storage appliance, wherein the first entity is capable of compressing the data and the second entity is capable of compressing the data; and a replication controller comprising a hardware processor to regulate the replication operation, the controller to select whether the first entity or the second entity is to compress data associated with the replication operation based at least in part on the at least one metric. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. An article comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium to store instructions that when executed by at least one processor cause the at least one processor to:
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determine at least one metric associated with a replication operation to replicate at least part of a first object stored on a first entity comprising one of a client, a first storage appliance and a second storage appliance onto a second entity comprising another one of the client, the first storage appliance and the second storage appliance, wherein the replication operation comprises compressing data, wherein the first entity is capable of compressing the data and the second entity is capable of compressing the data; and regulate the replication operation, the regulation comprising selecting whether the first entity or the second entity is to perform the compressing of the data based at least in part on the at least one metric. - View Dependent Claims (18)
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