US 11,989,434 B1
Optimizing protection of highly deduped data for performance and availability
John Creed, Innishannon (IE); and Owen Martin, Hopedale, MA (US)
Assigned to Dell Products L.P., Hopkinton, MA (US)
Filed by Dell Products L.P., Hopkinton, MA (US)
Filed on Apr. 3, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/194,710.
Int. Cl. G06F 3/06 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/0641 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0608 (2013.01); G06F 3/0619 (2013.01); G06F 3/0689 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
configuring a portion of storage capacity of each of a plurality of storage engines as a dedupe performance tier;
identifying highly deduplicated blocks of data according to predetermined criteria; and
storing copies of the highly deduplicated blocks of data on the dedupe performance tier of each of the plurality of storage engines.