Patents by Inventor Emalayan Vairavanathan
Emalayan Vairavanathan has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11861165Abstract: A system, method, and machine-readable storage medium for analyzing a state of a data object are provided. In some embodiments, the method includes receiving, at a storage device, a metadata request for the data object from a client. The data object is composed of a plurality of segments. The method also includes selecting a subset of the plurality of segments and obtaining a segment state for each segment of the subset. Each segment state indicates whether the respective segment is accessible via a backing store. The method further includes determining a most restrictive state of the one or more segment states and sending state information to the client in response to the metadata request, the state information being derived from the most restrictive state.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: NETAPP, INC.Inventors: Raymond Yu Shun Mak, Aditya Kalyanakrishnan, Song Guen Yoon, Emalayan Vairavanathan, Dheeraj Sangamkar, Chia-Chen Chu
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Patent number: 11740826Abstract: A storage management computing device obtains an information lifecycle management (ILM) policy. A data protection scheme to be applied at a storage node computing device level is determined and a plurality of storage node computing devices are identified based on an application of the ILM policy to metadata received from one of the storage node computing devices and associated with an object ingested by the one of the storage node computing devices. The one of the storage node computing devices is instructed to generate one or more copies of the object or fragments of the object according to the data protection scheme and to distribute the object copies or one of the object fragments to one or more other of the storage node computing devices to be stored by at least the one or more other storage node computing devices on one or more disk storage devices.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2022Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: NETAPP, INC.Inventors: Ajay Bakre, Vishnu Vardhan Chandra Kumaran, Alvin Lam, Emalayan Vairavanathan, Viswanath Chandrasekara Bharathi, Vladimir Avram, Dheeraj Raghavender Sangamkar, Oliver Seiler, Carmen Lum
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Patent number: 11656962Abstract: Distributed storage systems frequently use a centralized metadata repository that stores metadata in an eventually consistent distributed database. However, a metadata repository cannot be relied upon for determining which erasure coded fragments are lost because of a storage node(s) failures. Instead, when recovering a failed storage node, a list of missing fragments is generated based on fragments stored in storage devices of available storage nodes. A storage node performing the recovery sends a request to one or more of the available storage nodes for a fragment list. The fragment list is generated, not based on a metadata database, but on scanning storage devices for fragments related to the failed storage node. The storage node performing the recovery merges retrieved lists to create a master list indicating fragments that should be regenerated for recovery of the failed storage node(s).Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2022Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: NETAPP, INC.Inventors: Song Guen Yoon, Dheeraj Raghavender Sangamkar, Emalayan Vairavanathan
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Patent number: 11442827Abstract: A storage management computing device obtains an information lifecycle management (ILM) policy. A data protection scheme to be applied at a storage node computing device level is determined and a plurality of storage node computing devices are identified based on an application of the ILM policy to metadata received from one of the storage node computing devices and associated with an object ingested by the one of the storage node computing devices. The one of the storage node computing devices is instructed to generate one or more copies of the object or fragments of the object according to the data protection scheme and to distribute the object copies or one of the object fragments to one or more other of the storage node computing devices to be stored by at least the one or more other storage node computing devices on one or more disk storage devices.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2020Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: NETAPP, INC.Inventors: Ajay Bakre, Vishnu Vardhan Chandra Kumaran, Alvin Lam, Emalayan Vairavanathan, Viswanath Chandrasekara Bharathi, Vladimir Avram, Dheeraj Raghavender Sangamkar, Oliver Seiler, Carmen Lum
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Publication number: 20220229749Abstract: Distributed storage systems frequently use a centralized metadata repository that stores metadata in an eventually consistent distributed database. However, a metadata repository cannot be relied upon for determining which erasure coded fragments are lost because of a storage node(s) failures. Instead, when recovering a failed storage node, a list of missing fragments is generated based on fragments stored in storage devices of available storage nodes. A storage node performing the recovery sends a request to one or more of the available storage nodes for a fragment list. The fragment list is generated, not based on a metadata database, but on scanning storage devices for fragments related to the failed storage node. The storage node performing the recovery merges retrieved lists to create a master list indicating fragments that should be regenerated for recovery of the failed storage node(s).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2022Publication date: July 21, 2022Inventors: Song Guen Yoon, Dheeraj Raghavender Sangamkar, Emalayan Vairavanathan
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Publication number: 20220222157Abstract: A storage management computing device obtains an information lifecycle management (ILM) policy. A data protection scheme to be applied at a storage node computing device level is determined and a plurality of storage node computing devices are identified based on an application of the ILM policy to metadata received from one of the storage node computing devices and associated with an object ingested by the one of the storage node computing devices. The one of the storage node computing devices is instructed to generate one or more copies of the object or fragments of the object according to the data protection scheme and to distribute the object copies or one of the object fragments to one or more other of the storage node computing devices to be stored by at least the one or more other storage node computing devices on one or more disk storage devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2022Publication date: July 14, 2022Inventors: Ajay Bakre, Vishnu Vardhan Chandra Kumaran, Alvin Lam, Emalayan Vairavanathan, Viswanath Chandrasekara Bharathi, Vladimir Avram, Dheeraj Raghavender Sangamkar, Oliver Seiler, Carmen Lum
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Patent number: 11372738Abstract: Distributed storage systems frequently use a centralized metadata repository that stores metadata in an eventually consistent distributed database. However, a metadata repository cannot be relied upon for determining which erasure coded fragments are lost because of a storage node(s) failures. Instead, when recovering a failed storage node, a list of missing fragments is generated based on fragments stored in storage devices of available storage nodes. A storage node performing the recovery sends a request to one or more of the available storage nodes for a fragment list. The fragment list is generated, not based on a metadata database, but on scanning storage devices for fragments related to the failed storage node. The storage node performing the recovery merges retrieved lists to create a master list indicating fragments that should be regenerated for recovery of the failed storage node(s).Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2019Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: NETAPP, INC.Inventors: Song Guen Yoon, Dheeraj Raghavender Sangamkar, Emalayan Vairavanathan
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Publication number: 20220121364Abstract: A system, method, and machine-readable storage medium for analyzing a state of a data object are provided. In some embodiments, the method includes receiving, at a storage device, a metadata request for the data object from a client. The data object is composed of a plurality of segments. The method also includes selecting a subset of the plurality of segments and obtaining a segment state for each segment of the subset. Each segment state indicates whether the respective segment is accessible via a backing store. The method further includes determining a most restrictive state of the one or more segment states and sending state information to the client in response to the metadata request, the state information being derived from the most restrictive state.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2021Publication date: April 21, 2022Inventors: Raymond Yu Shun Mak, Aditya Kalyanakrishnan, Song Guen Yoon, Emalayan Vairavanathan, Dheeraj Sangamkar, Chia-Chen Chu
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Patent number: 11243692Abstract: A system, method, and machine-readable storage medium for analyzing a state of a data object are provided. In some embodiments, the method includes receiving, at a storage device, a metadata request for the data object from a client. The data object is composed of a plurality of segments. The method also includes selecting a subset of the plurality of segments and obtaining a segment state for each segment of the subset. Each segment state indicates whether the respective segment is accessible via a backing store. The method further includes determining a most restrictive state of the one or more segment states and sending state information to the client in response to the metadata request, the state information being derived from the most restrictive state.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2019Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: NETAPP, INC.Inventors: Raymond Yu Shun Mak, Aditya Kalyanakrishnan, Song Guen Yoon, Emalayan Vairavanathan, Dheeraj Sangamkar, Chia-Chen Chu
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Patent number: 11023340Abstract: Technology is disclosed for storing data in a distributed storage system using a virtual chunk service (VCS). In the VCS based storage technique, a storage node (“node”) is split into multiple VCSs and each of the VCSs can be assigned a unique ID in the distributed storage. A set of VCSs from a set of nodes form a storage group, which also can be assigned a unique ID in the distributed storage. When a data object is received for storage, a storage group is identified for the data object, the data object is encoded to generate multiple fragments and each fragment is stored in a VCS of the identified storage group. The data recovery process is made more efficient by using metadata, e.g., VCS to storage node mapping, storage group to VCS mapping, VCS to objects mapping, which eliminates resource intensive read and write operations during recovery.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2019Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: NETAPP, INC.Inventors: Dheeraj Raghavender Sangamkar, Ajay Bakre, Vladimir Radu Avram, Emalayan Vairavanathan, Viswanath Chandrasekara Bharathi
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Patent number: 10929043Abstract: Techniques are described for reserving space on a destination node or volume for increasing the likelihood of a successful data transfer in a distributed storage environment. A reservation may be retried at one or more destinations if the reservation fails at a first destination. In some embodiments, the data-transfer process can be paused or terminated prior to data being transferred to one or more destinations if a reservation fails. Reserving space on a destination node or volume can increase the likelihood of a successful data transfer, which can increase the likelihood of efficient resources usage in a storage system.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2019Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: NETAPP, INC.Inventors: Tymoteusz Altman, Yi Zhang, Dheeraj Raghavender Sangamkar, Emalayan Vairavanathan
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Patent number: 10817393Abstract: To ensure that there is an elected manager among storage nodes of an erasure coding group (“ECG”), an ECG manager (“ECGM”) election process is periodically performed among available storage nodes that are configured with the software to perform the services of an ECGM. When a storage node is activated, an ECGM process of the storage node begins executing and is assigned a process identifier (“PID”). A storage node can utilize a service query framework to identify other available storage nodes and retrieve their ECGM PIDs. The storage node then selects a PID according to a criterion and elects the storage node corresponding to the selected PID to be the acting ECGM. This process is performed periodically, so even if the acting ECGM storage node fails, a new ECGM is eventually selected from the available storage nodes.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2019Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: NETAPP, INC.Inventors: Dheeraj Raghavender Sangamkar, Song Guen Yoon, Emalayan Vairavanathan, Yi Zhang
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Patent number: 10795789Abstract: To efficiently recover from a multiple storage node failure, a storage node concurrently restores data fragments to the multiple failed storage nodes, as opposed to restoring each node individually. In the VCS based storage technique, storage nodes are restored as part of an ECG repair process. For each ECG being repaired, a storage node performing the restoration process reads data fragments from active nodes in the ECG and generates new data fragments to replace any lost data fragments. The node then stores one of the new data fragments across each of the failed storage nodes. By concurrently restoring data fragments to each failed storage node, the data fragments needed to repair each ECG are only read once, thereby preserving disk operations and network bandwidth.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2019Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: NETAPP, INC.Inventors: Emalayan Vairavanathan, Dheeraj Raghavender Sangamkar, Song Guen Yoon, Yi Zhang
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Publication number: 20200278913Abstract: A storage management computing device obtains an information lifecycle management (ILM) policy. A data protection scheme to be applied at a storage node computing device level is determined and a plurality of storage node computing devices are identified based on an application of the ILM policy to metadata received from one of the storage node computing devices and associated with an object ingested by the one of the storage node computing devices. The one of the storage node computing devices is instructed to generate one or more copies of the object or fragments of the object according to the data protection scheme and to distribute the object copies or one of the object fragments to one or more other of the storage node computing devices to be stored by at least the one or more other storage node computing devices on one or more disk storage devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2020Publication date: September 3, 2020Inventors: Ajay Bakre, Vishnu Vardhan Chandra Kumaran, Alvin Lam, Emalayan Vairavanathan, Viswanath Chandrasekara Bharathi, Vladimir Avram, Dheeraj Raghavender Sangamkar, Oliver Seiler, Carmen Lum
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Patent number: 10691366Abstract: A storage management computing device obtains an information lifecycle management (ILM) policy based on a query from a storage node ingesting an object into a distributed storage system. A hierarchical data protection plan comprising protection schemes at different layers of the distributed storage system is determined. A data protection scheme to be applied at a storage node computing device level is determined and a plurality of storage node computing devices are identified based on the hierarchical data protection plan. The storage management computing device instructs the ingesting storage node to store the object into the distributed storage system according to the hierarchical data protection plan.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2018Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: NETAPP, INC.Inventors: Ajay Bakre, Vishnu Vardhan Chandra Kumaran, Alvin Lam, Emalayan Vairavanathan, Viswanath Chandrasekara Bharathi, Vladimir Avram, Dheeraj Raghavender Sangamkar, Oliver Seiler, Carmen Lum
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Publication number: 20200183587Abstract: A system, method, and machine-readable storage medium for analyzing a state of a data object are provided. In some embodiments, the method includes receiving, at a storage device, a metadata request for the data object from a client. The data object is composed of a plurality of segments. The method also includes selecting a subset of the plurality of segments and obtaining a segment state for each segment of the subset. Each segment state indicates whether the respective segment is accessible via a backing store. The method further includes determining a most restrictive state of the one or more segment states and sending state information to the client in response to the metadata request, the state information being derived from the most restrictive state.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2019Publication date: June 11, 2020Inventors: Raymond Yu Shun Mak, Aditya Kalyanakrishnan, Song Guen Yoon, Emalayan Vairavanathan, Dheeraj Sangamkar, Chia-Chen Chu
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Publication number: 20200117560Abstract: Distributed storage systems frequently use a centralized metadata repository that stores metadata in an eventually consistent distributed database. However, a metadata repository cannot be relied upon for determining which erasure coded fragments are lost because of a storage node(s) failures. Instead, when recovering a failed storage node, a list of missing fragments is generated based on fragments stored in storage devices of available storage nodes. A storage node performing the recovery sends a request to one or more of the available storage nodes for a fragment list. The fragment list is generated, not based on a metadata database, but on scanning storage devices for fragments related to the failed storage node. The storage node performing the recovery merges retrieved lists to create a master list indicating fragments that should be regenerated for recovery of the failed storage node(s).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2019Publication date: April 16, 2020Inventors: Song Guen Yoon, Dheeraj Raghavender Sangamkar, Emalayan Vairavanathan
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Publication number: 20200057701Abstract: Technology is disclosed for storing data in a distributed storage system using a virtual chunk service (VCS). In the VCS based storage technique, a storage node (“node”) is split into multiple VCSs and each of the VCSs can be assigned a unique ID in the distributed storage. A set of VCSs from a set of nodes form a storage group, which also can be assigned a unique ID in the distributed storage. When a data object is received for storage, a storage group is identified for the data object, the data object is encoded to generate multiple fragments and each fragment is stored in a VCS of the identified storage group. The data recovery process is made more efficient by using metadata, e.g., VCS to storage node mapping, storage group to VCS mapping, VCS to objects mapping, which eliminates resource intensive read and write operations during recovery.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2019Publication date: February 20, 2020Inventors: Dheeraj Raghavender Sangamkar, Ajay Bakre, Vladimir Radu Avram, Emalayan Vairavanathan, Viswanath Chandrasekara Bharathi
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Patent number: 10558538Abstract: Distributed storage systems frequently use a centralized metadata repository that stores metadata in an eventually consistent distributed database. However, a metadata repository cannot be relied upon for determining which erasure coded fragments are lost because of a storage node(s) failures. Instead, when recovering a failed storage node, a list of missing fragments is generated based on fragments stored in storage devices of available storage nodes. A storage node performing the recovery sends a request to one or more of the available storage nodes for a fragment list. The fragment list is generated, not based on a metadata database, but on scanning storage devices for fragments related to the failed storage node. The storage node performing the recovery merges retrieved lists to create a master list indicating fragments that should be regenerated for recovery of the failed storage node(s).Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2017Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: NETAPP, INC.Inventors: Song Guen Yoon, Dheeraj Raghavender Sangamkar, Emalayan Vairavanathan
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Publication number: 20200034256Abstract: To efficiently recover from a multiple storage node failure, a storage node concurrently restores data fragments to the multiple failed storage nodes, as opposed to restoring each node individually. In the VCS based storage technique, storage nodes are restored as part of an ECG repair process. For each ECG being repaired, a storage node performing the restoration process reads data fragments from active nodes in the ECG and generates new data fragments to replace any lost data fragments. The node then stores one of the new data fragments across each of the failed storage nodes. By concurrently restoring data fragments to each failed storage node, the data fragments needed to repair each ECG are only read once, thereby preserving disk operations and network bandwidth.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2019Publication date: January 30, 2020Inventors: Emalayan Vairavanathan, Dheeraj Raghavender Sangamkar, Song Guen Yoon, Yi Zhang