US 12,149,588 B2
Cloud defined storage
Siamak Nazari, Mountain View, CA (US); and Sahba Etaati, Los Gatos, CA (US)
Assigned to Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US)
Appl. No. 17/802,488
Filed by NVIDIA CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US)
PCT Filed Feb. 26, 2021, PCT No. PCT/US2021/019998
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 25, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/174063, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 2, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/983,251, filed on Feb. 28, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0112764 A1, Apr. 13, 2023
Int. Cl. H04L 67/1097 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 67/1097 (2013.01) 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
7. A process for configuring a storage platform including a plurality of storage processing units that are resident in one or more host servers of an enterprise, the process comprising:
cloud-based management infrastructure determining characteristics of backend storage that is connected to the storage processing units;
selecting based on storage needs of the enterprise a storage style for the storage platform; and
the cloud-based management infrastructure directing the storage processing units to create a plurality of virtual volumes that the storage platform presents for storage services, the cloud-based management system selecting one or more characteristics of the virtual volumes based on the storage style selected, wherein
the virtual volumes comprise a plurality of primary volumes and any number of backup volumes, the backup volumes mirroring associated ones of the primary volumes, and wherein
selecting the storage style comprises selecting from among:
an unmirrored storage style in which the primary volumes are all or mostly unmirrored;
a single-access style in which each of the primary volumes is only available through the storage processing unit that owns the primary volume; and
a shared style in which each of the primary volumes is available through the storage processing unit that owns the primary volume and through one or more of the storage processing units that do not own the primary volumes.