IP Library Granted Patent US 10,372,560
Granted Patent B2
US 10,372,560 · App. 15/447,880 · Granted Aug 6, 2019

Cloud storage write cache management system and method

Inventors: Mikhail Danilov (Saint Petersburg, RU); Andrey Fomin (Vesevolozhsk, RU); Mikhail Malygin (Saint Petersburg, RU); Vladimir Prikhodko (Saint Petersburg, RU); Alexander Rakulenko (Seattle, WA); Maxim Trusov (Saint Petersburg, RU)
Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
G06F11/1471G06F11/3034G06F2201/82G06F2201/885
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Patent No.
US 10,372,560
App. No.
15/447,880
Granted
Aug 6, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method, computer program product, and computer system for monitoring health of at least one storage device of a cache in a clustered system. A recovery journal may be maintained, wherein the recovery journal may identify whether one or more chunks of data stored in the cache have been dumped from the at least one storage device to persistent storage in the clustered system. A state of the at least one storage device may be determined based upon, at least in part, the health of the at least one storage device. A recovery action may be performed on the one or more chunks of data stored in the at least one storage device based upon, at least in part, the state of the at least one storage device.

Claims (33)

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

monitoring health of at least one storage device of a cache in a clustered system;

maintaining a recovery journal, wherein the recovery journal identifies whether one or more chunks of data stored in the cache have been dumped from the at least one storage device to persistent storage in the clustered system;

determining a state of the at least one storage device based upon, at least in part, the health of the at least one storage device, wherein the state of the at least one storage device is determined to be a second state if the at least one storage device is incapable of completing I/O requests; and

performing a recovery action on the one or more chunks of data stored in the at least one storage device based upon, at least in part, the state of the at least one storage device, wherein the recovery action includes:

invalidating at least a portion of the one or more chunks of data stored in the at least one storage device if the state of the at least one storage device is the second state; and

recovering at least a portion of the one or more chunks of data that remain in the recovery journal.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the state of the at least one storage device is determined to be a first state if at least one I/O request directed to the at least one storage device fails.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2 wherein the recovery action includes attempting to dump each of the one or more chunks of data stored in the at least one storage device to the persistent storage if the state of the at least one storage device is the first state, wherein each chunk of data successfully dumped is removed from the recovery journal.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 3 wherein the recovery action further includes recovering at least a portion of the one or more chunks of data that remain in the recovery journal.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the recovery action includes restoring the recovery journal from a file system on the at least one storage device if the recovery journal is one of corrupted and lost.

6. A computer program product residing on a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having a plurality of instructions stored thereon which, when executed across one or more processors, cause at least a portion of the one or more processor to perform operations comprising:

monitoring health of at least one storage device of a cache in a clustered system;

maintaining a recovery journal, wherein the recovery journal identifies whether one or more chunks of data stored in the cache have been dumped from the at least one storage device to persistent storage in the clustered system;

determining a state of the at least one storage device based upon, at least in part, the health of the at least one storage device, wherein the state of the at least one storage device is determined to be a first state if at least one I/O request directed to the at least one storage device fails; and

performing a recovery action on the one or more chunks of data stored in the at least one storage device based upon, at least in part, the state of the at least one storage device, wherein the recovery action includes attempting to dump each of the one or more chunks of data stored in the at least one storage device to the persistent storage if the state of the at least one storage device is the first state, wherein each chunk of data successfully dumped is removed from the recovery journal.

7. The computer program product of claim 6 wherein the recovery action further includes recovering at least a portion of the one or more chunks of data that remain in the recovery journal.

8. The computer program product of claim 6 wherein the state of the at least one storage device is determined to be a second state if the at least one storage device is incapable of completing I/O requests.

9. The computer program product of claim 8 wherein the recovery action further includes:

invalidating at least a portion of the one or more chunks of data stored in the at least one storage device if the state of the at least one storage device is the second state; and

recovering at least a portion of the one or more chunks of data that remain in the recovery journal.

10. The computer program product of claim 6 wherein the recovery action includes restoring the recovery journal from a file system on the at least one storage device if the recovery journal is one of corrupted and lost.

11. A computing system including one or more processors and one or more memories configured to perform operations comprising:

monitoring health of at least one storage device of a cache in a clustered system;

maintaining a recovery journal, wherein the recovery journal identifies whether one or more chunks of data stored in the cache have been dumped from the at least one storage device to persistent storage in the clustered system;

determining a state of the at least one storage device based upon, at least in part, the health of the at least one storage device, wherein the state of the at least one storage device is determined to be a second state if the at least one storage device is incapable of completing I/O requests; and

performing a recovery action on the one or more chunks of data stored in the at least one storage device based upon, at least in part, the state of the at least one storage device, wherein the recovery action includes:

invalidating at least a portion of the one or more chunks of data stored in the at least one storage device if the state of the at least one storage device is the second state; and

recovering at least a portion of the one or more chunks of data that remain in the recovery journal.

12. The computing system of claim 11 wherein the state of the at least one storage device is determined to be a first state if at least one I/O request directed to the at least one storage device fails.

13. The computing system of claim 12 wherein the recovery action includes attempting to dump each of the one or more chunks of data stored in the at least one storage device to the persistent storage if the state of the at least one storage device is the first state, wherein each chunk of data successfully dumped is removed from the recovery journal.

14. The computing system of claim 13 wherein the recovery action further includes recovering at least a portion of the one or more chunks of data that remain in the recovery journal.

15. The computing system of claim 11 wherein the recovery action includes restoring the recovery journal from a file system on the at least one storage device if the recovery journal is one of corrupted and lost.

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To: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.; EMC CORPORATION; EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC (ON BEHALF OF ITSELF AND AS SUCCESSOR-IN-INTEREST TO MOZY, INC.); DELL MARKETING CORPORATION (SUCCESSOR-IN-INTEREST TO WYSE TECHNOLOGY L.L.C.)
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SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Apr 22, 2020
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To: THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A.
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SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Mar 21, 2019
From: CREDANT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.; DELL INTERNATIONAL L.L.C.; DELL MARKETING L.P.; DELL PRODUCTS L.P.; DELL USA L.P.; EMC CORPORATION; FORCE10 NETWORKS, INC.; WYSE TECHNOLOGY L.L.C.; EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
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PATENT SECURITY INTEREST (CREDIT) Recorded Jun 12, 2017
From: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.; EMC CORPORATION; EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC; MOZY, INC.; WYSE TECHNOLOGY L.L.C.
To: CREDIT SUISSE AG, CAYMAN ISLANDS BRANCH, AS COLLATERAL AGENT
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PATENT SECURITY INTEREST (NOTES) Recorded Jun 12, 2017
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ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 2, 2017
From: DANILOV, MIKHAIL; FOMIN, ANDREY; MALYGIN, MIKHAIL; PRIKHODKO, VLADIMIR; RAKULENKO, ALEXANDER; TRUSOV, MAXIM
To: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
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