Granted Patent B1

US 10,152,268 · App. 15/085,934 · Granted Dec 11, 2018

Inventors: Subhasish Chakraborty (Livermore, CA); David Lin (Santa Clara, CA); Shufeng Huang (San Jose, CA); Terry Hahn (Los Altos, CA); Sunil Prabhakar (Fremont, CA)

Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC

G06F3/065G06F3/0619G06F3/0683

Abstract

Claims (38)

1. A computer-implemented method for replicating data, comprising:

receiving, at a target storage system, a replication request to replicate data from a source storage system to the target storage system, wherein the target storage system stores data replicated from a plurality of source storage systems;

in response to the replication request, identifying a replication resource limit associated with the data to be replicated from the source storage system, wherein the replication resource limit includes a capacity limit representing a storage space limit that can be used at the target storage system, wherein the capacity limit includes a capacity soft quota and a capacity hard quota, and wherein the capacity hard quota is set to enforce a maximum capacity limit allocated to the data being replicated;

determining whether a replication resource requested by the replication request has exceeded the replication resource limit, including

determining whether the replication resource utilized by a replication session associated with the replication request has exceeded at least one of the capacity soft quota and the capacity hard quota;

sending a soft quota alert to a predetermined monitoring entity if the replication resource exceeds the capacity soft quota; and

sending a hard quota alert to the predetermined monitoring entity and terminating the replication session if the replication resource exceeds the capacity hard quota allocated to the data being replicated; and

allowing the replication resource to replicate data from the source storage system, in response to the replication resource not exceeding the replication resource limit.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of source storage systems are associated with a plurality of tenants, and wherein data stored in the target storage system are associated with the plurality of tenants in a multi-tenancy manner.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the replication resource limit further includes a default maximum resource limit, wherein the default maximum resource limit applies to a source storage system or a target storage system if either storage system has not defined a stream limit quota.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the replication resource limit further includes a stream limit, and wherein the stream limit is set to enforce a maximum number of streams allocated to a replication session from the source storage system to the target storage system.

5. The method of claim 4 , further comprising: determining whether a number of replication streams associated with the replication request has exceeded the stream limit allocated to the data being replicated; and

terminating the replication session if the number of replication streams exceeds the stream limit.

6. A non-transitory machine-readable medium having instructions stored therein, which when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations for replicating data, the operations comprising:

receiving, at a target storage system, a replication request to replicate data from a source storage system to the target storage system, wherein the target storage system stores data replicated from a plurality of source storage systems;

in response to the replication request, identifying a replication resource limit associated with the data to be replicated from the source storage system,

wherein the replication resource limit includes a capacity limit representing a storage space limit that can be used at the target storage system, wherein the capacity limit includes a capacity soft, quota and a capacity hard quota, and wherein the capacity hard quota is set to enforce a maximum capacity limit allocated to the data being replicated;

determining whether a replication resource requested by the replication request has exceeded the replication resource limit, including

determining whether the replication resource utilized by a replication session associated with the replication request has exceeded at least one of the capacity soft quota and the capacity hard quota;

sending a soft quota alert to a predetermined monitoring entity if the replication resource exceeds the capacity soft quota; and

sending a hard quota alert to the predetermined monitoring entity and terminating the replication session if the replication resource exceeds the capacity hard quota allocated to the data being replicated; and

allowing the replication resource to replicate data from the source storage system, in response to the replication resource not exceeding the replication resource limit.

7. The medium of claim 6 , wherein the plurality of source storage systems are associated with a plurality of tenants, and wherein data stored in the target storage system are associated with the plurality of tenants in a multi-tenancy manner.

8. The medium of claim 6 , wherein the replication resource limit further includes a default maximum resource limit, wherein the default maximum resource limit applies to a source storage system or a target storage system if either storage system has not defined a stream limit quota.

9. The medium of claim 6 , wherein the replication resource limit further includes a stream limit, and wherein the stream limit is set to enforce a maximum number of streams allocated to a replication session from the source storage system to the target storage system.

10. The medium of claim 9 , further comprising: determining whether a number of replication streams associated with the replication request has exceeded the stream limit allocated to the data being replicated; and terminating the replication session if the number of replication streams exceeds the stream limit.

11. A system, comprising: a processor; and

a memory coupled to the processor for storing instructions, which when executed from the memory, cause the processor to perform operations for replicating data, the operations including: receiving, at a target storage system, a replication request to replicate data from a source storage system to the target storage system, wherein the target storage system stores data replicated from a plurality of source storage systems;

in response to the replication request, identifying a replication resource limit associated with the data to be replicated from the source storage system,

wherein the replication resource limit includes a capacity limit representing a storage space limit that can be used at the target storage system, wherein the capacity limit includes a capacity soft quota and a capacity hard quota, and wherein the capacity hard quota is set to enforce a maximum capacity limit allocated to the data being replicated:

determining whether a replication resource requested by the replication request has exceeded the replication resource limit, including

determining whether the replication resource utilized by a replication session associated with the replication request has exceeded at least one of the capacity soft quota and the capacity hard quota;

sending a soft quota alert to a predetermined monitoring entity if the replication resource exceeds the capacity soft quota; and

sending a hard quota alert to the predetermined monitoring entity and terminating the replication session if the replication resource exceeds the capacity hard quota allocated to the data being replicated; and allowing the replication resource to replicate data from the source storage system, in response to the replication resource not exceeding the replication resource limit.

12. The system of claim 11 , wherein the plurality of source storage systems are associated with a plurality of tenants, and wherein data stored in the target storage system are associated with the plurality of tenants in a multi-tenancy manner.

13. The system of claim 11 , wherein the replication resource limit further includes a default maximum resource limit, wherein the default maximum resource limit applies to a source storage system or a target storage system if either storage system has not defined a stream limit quota.

14. The system of claim 11 , wherein the replication resource limit further includes a stream limit, and wherein the stream limit is set to enforce a maximum number of streams allocated to a replication session from the source storage system to the target storage system.

15. The system of claim 14 , further comprising: determining whether a number of replication streams associated with the replication request has exceeded the stream limit allocated to the data being replicated; and terminating the replication session if the number of replication streams exceeds the stream limit.

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