US 12,216,902 B2
Storage utilization determinations in cloud-based storage systems
Matthew Fay, Mountain View, CA (US); John Colgrove, Los Altos, CA (US); and Martin Harriman, Aptos, CA (US)
Assigned to PURE STORAGE, INC., Santa Clara, CA (US)
Filed by PURE STORAGE, INC., Santa Clara, CA (US)
Filed on Nov. 27, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/519,528.
Application 18/519,528 is a continuation of application No. 17/936,954, filed on Sep. 30, 2022, granted, now 11,836,349.
Application 17/936,954 is a continuation of application No. 17/157,573, filed on Jan. 25, 2021, granted, now 11,474,701, issued on Oct. 18, 2022.
Application 17/157,573 is a continuation of application No. 16/711,775, filed on Dec. 12, 2019, granted, now 10,942,650, issued on Mar. 9, 2021.
Application 16/711,775 is a continuation in part of application No. 15/911,510, filed on Mar. 5, 2018, granted, now 10,521,151, issued on Dec. 31, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2024/0152275 A1, May 9, 2024
Int. Cl. G06F 3/06 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/0608 (2013.01) [G06F 3/064 (2013.01); G06F 3/0644 (2013.01); G06F 3/0653 (2013.01); G06F 3/0673 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
determining a fractional capacity utilization based on references to deduplicated data associated with a user-visible entity in a cloud-based storage system, wherein the fractional capacity utilization associated with the user-visible entity comprises an amount of data stored within the cloud-based storage system that is exclusively associated with the user-visible entity, determined by:
identifying all blocks of data stored within the cloud-based storage system that are unique to the user-visible entity or unique to a snapshot of the user-visible entity; and
based on the determination, determining a total capacity utilization for the user-visible entity.