Granted Patent B2

US 12,591,397 · App. 18/821,618 · Granted Mar 31, 2026

Inventors: Ronald Karr (Palo Alto, CA); Par Botes (Atherton, CA)

Assignee: PURE STORAGE, INC.

G06F3/0664G06F3/0607G06F3/0632G06F3/0647G06F3/0658G06F3/0683

Abstract

Claims (48)

1 . A method comprising:

instantiating one or more virtual storage controllers, wherein the one or more virtual storage controllers are coupled to different components in different virtual storage systems including on-premises virtual storage systems utilizing on-premises physical storage resources and cloud-based virtual storage systems that are created using services offered within a cloud platform environment; and

constructing at least one storage system using the one or more virtual storage controllers.

2 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

constructing one or more of the different virtual storage systems with virtual drive servers that are implemented using compute instances, wherein the compute instances include cloud-computing instances.

3 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

instantiating the one or more virtual storage controllers as containerized storage controller applications.

4 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

constructing the cloud-based virtual storage systems using resources provided by one or more cloud computing environments; and

processing, by the one or more virtual storage controllers, one or more I/O operations using the cloud-based virtual storage systems constructed using the resources provided by the one or more cloud computing environments.

5 . The method of claim 4 , wherein the one or more virtual storage controllers are implemented in respective cloud computing instances of a cloud platform; and wherein one or more virtual storage devices are implemented in respective cloud computing instances of the cloud platform.

6 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the different virtual storage systems include an on-premises virtual storage system created in a virtual environment supported by on-premises physical storage resources.

7 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

migrating a dataset from a virtual storage system to another virtual storage system, wherein at least one of the virtual storage systems is an on-premises virtual storage system utilizing on-premises physical storage resources.

8 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

migrating a dataset from an on-premises virtual storage system to a native environment executing on a physical storage system.

9 . The method of claim 1 further comprising:

instantiating the one or more virtual storage controllers; and

instantiating one or more virtual storage devices each including multiple storage tiers.

10 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

migrating a dataset from an on-premises virtual storage system to a native environment executing on a physical storage system.

11 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

for a virtual storage system of the different virtual storage systems, exposing a first set of interfaces to a first role for the virtual storage system, wherein the first set of interfaces configure a physical environment hosting the virtual storage system; and

exposing a second set of interfaces to a second role for the virtual storage system, wherein the second set of interfaces configure virtual components in the virtual storage system.

12 . An apparatus comprising:

a memory;

a processing device operably coupled to the memory, configured to:

instantiate one or more virtual storage controllers, wherein the one or more virtual storage controllers are coupled to different components in different virtual storage systems including on-premises virtual storage systems utilizing on-premises physical storage resources and cloud-based virtual storage systems that are created using services offered within a cloud platform environment; and

construct at least one storage system using the one or more virtual storage controllers.

13 . The apparatus of claim 12 , wherein the processing device is further configured to:

construct one or more of the different virtual storage systems with virtual drive servers that are implemented using compute instances, wherein the compute instances include cloud-computing instances.

14 . The apparatus of claim 12 , wherein the processing device is further configured to:

instant the one or more virtual storage controllers as containerized storage controller applications.

15 . The apparatus of claim 12 , wherein the processing device is further configured to:

construct the cloud-based virtual storage systems using resources provided by one or more cloud computing environments; and

process, by the virtual storage controllers, one or more I/O operations using the cloud-based virtual storage systems constructed using the resources provided by the one or more cloud computing environments.

16 . The apparatus of claim 12 , wherein the processing device is further configured to:

replicate a dataset from an on-premises virtual storage system to a native environment executing on a physical storage system.

17 . The apparatus of claim 12 , wherein the processing device is further configured to:

for a virtual storage system of the different virtual storage systems, expose a first set of interfaces to a first role for the virtual storage system, wherein the first set of interfaces configure a physical environment hosting the virtual storage system; and

expose a second set of interfaces to a second role for the virtual storage system, wherein the second set of interfaces configure virtual components in the virtual storage system.

18 . A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions that:

instantiate one or more virtual storage controllers, wherein the one or more virtual storage controllers are coupled to different components in different virtual storage systems including on-premises virtual storage systems utilizing on-premises physical storage resources and cloud-based virtual storage systems that are created using services offered within a cloud platform environment; and

construct at least one storage system using the one or more virtual storage controllers.

19 . The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 18 , wherein the processing device is further configured to:

construct one or more of the different virtual storage systems with virtual drive servers that are implemented using compute instances, wherein the compute instances include cloud-computing instances.

20 . The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 18 , wherein the processing device is further configured to:

instantiate the one or more virtual storage controllers as containerized storage controller applications.

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