Granted Patent B2

US 8,577,836 · App. 13/414,035 · Granted Nov 5, 2013

Inventors: Haim Kopylovitz (Herzliya, IL); Ido Ben-Tsion (Ramat Gan, IL); Leo Corry (Ramat Gan, IL); Yechiel Yochai (Moshav Aviel, IL)

Assignee: Infinidat Ltd.

Abstract

Claims (26)

1. A method of migrating data from a source storage system to a destination storage system, the method comprising:

a) upon selecting in the source storage system a source volume, said source volume characterized by certain properties; configuring in the destination storage system a destination volume corresponding to the source volume and characterized by the same properties and configuring in the destination storage system destination snapshots corresponding to known source snapshots of the source volume and characterized by corresponding points in time;

b) redirecting I/O requests from at least one applications running on at least one host to the destination volume instead of the source volume, whilst migrating data stored in the source volume to the destination volume; and

c) in response to read requests initiated by the destination storage system and addressed to the source volume and the source snapshots:

obtaining corresponding sections of the source volume and of the source snapshots;

comparing data in the corresponding sections of the source volume and the source snapshots;

if the corresponding sections comprise identical data, storing in the destination storage system only one of the corresponding sections and generating pointers in the destination volume and the destination snapshots, these pointers directed to the same stored section; and

if the corresponding sections are different, storing in the destination storage system all different sections and generating respective pointers in the destination volume and the destination snapshots.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein said redirecting I/O requests is provided by reconfiguring said at least one host.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein said redirecting I/O requests is provided by reconfiguring all hosts running applications addressing the source volume, said reconfiguring provided as an atomic operation with respect to all said hosts.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein said redirecting I/O requests is provided by reconfiguring all switches involved in directing I/O requests from all hosts running applications addressing the source volume, said reconfiguring provided as an atomic operation with respect to all said hosts.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein said redirecting is provided with the help of a predefined set of instructions stored in a non-transitory computer-readable media, said set of instructions initiated responsive to data received from the destination system.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein said migrating data from the source volume to the destination volume is provided as a background process with the help of read requests initiated by the destination storage system and addressed to the source volume.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising providing operations a)-b) for a next selected source volume, wherein the redirecting I/O requests to a next destination volume instead of the next source volume is provided after completing redirecting I/O requests to a previous destination volume instead of a previous source volume.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein operations a)-b) are provided for a group of volumes, wherein redirecting I/O requests to volumes among a group of destination volumes instead of respective volumes among a group of source volumes is provided as an atomic operation.

9. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

in response to receiving an I/O request addressed to the destination volume, sending by the destination system a read request to the source volume in a case the respective I/O operation requests data missing in the destination volume.

10. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer useable medium having computer readable program code embodied therein for operating a storage system operable as a destination storage system for migrating data from a source storage system, the computer program product comprising:

computer readable program code for causing the computer to configure in the destination storage system a destination volume corresponding to a source volume selected in the source storage system and characterized by the same properties;

computer readable program code for causing the destination storage system to initiate read requests addressed to the source volume thereby enabling a background process of migrating data stored in the source volume to the destination volume;

computer readable program code for causing the computer to configure in the destination storage system destination snapshots corresponding to known source snapshots of the source volume and characterized by corresponding points in time;

computer readable program code for causing the computer, in response to read requests initiated by the destination storage system and addressed to the source volume and the source snapshots;

to obtain corresponding sections of the source volume and of the source snapshots;

to compare data in the corresponding sections of the source volume and the source snapshots;

if the corresponding sections comprise identical data, to store in the destination storage system only one of the corresponding sections and to generate pointers in the destination volume and the destination snapshots, these pointers directed to the same stored section; and

if the corresponding sections are different, to store in the destination storage system all different sections and to generate respective pointers in the destination volume and the destination snapshots.

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