U.S. patent application number 17/214196 was filed with the patent office on 2022-09-29 for consolidation and migration of cloud data.
The applicant listed for this patent is EMC IP Holding Company LLC. Invention is credited to Ramprasad N. CHINTHEKINDI, Rahul GOYAL, Mahesh KAMAT, George MATHEW.
Application Number | 20220308783 17/214196 |
Document ID | / |
Family ID | 1000006588921 |
Filed Date | 2022-09-29 |
United States Patent
Application |
20220308783 |
Kind Code |
A1 |
CHINTHEKINDI; Ramprasad N. ;
et al. |
September 29, 2022 |
CONSOLIDATION AND MIGRATION OF CLOUD DATA
Abstract
A method of migrating or consolidating cloud data includes
generating a container on a cloud platform and receiving, at the
container, source metadata identifying a set of data to be migrated
from a source cloud bucket associated with a source data domain to
a destination cloud bucket associated with a destination data
domain. The method further includes copying, by the container, set
of data from the source cloud bucket to the destination cloud
bucket based on the source metadata and generating, by the
container, destination metadata for the set of data as stored at
the destination cloud bucket.
Inventors: |
CHINTHEKINDI; Ramprasad N.;
(Cupertino, CA) ; MATHEW; George; (Belmont,
CA) ; GOYAL; Rahul; (Madhya Pradesh, IN) ;
KAMAT; Mahesh; (San Jose, CA) |
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Applicant: |
Name |
City |
State |
Country |
Type |
EMC IP Holding Company LLC |
Hopkinton |
MA |
US |
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Family ID: |
1000006588921 |
Appl. No.: |
17/214196 |
Filed: |
March 26, 2021 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
1/1 |
Current CPC
Class: |
G06F 3/0659 20130101;
G06F 3/0614 20130101; G06F 3/0649 20130101; G06F 3/067
20130101 |
International
Class: |
G06F 3/06 20060101
G06F003/06 |
Claims
1. A method of migrating or consolidating cloud data comprising:
generating a container on a cloud platform; receiving, at the
container, source metadata identifying a set of data to be migrated
from a source cloud bucket associated with a source data domain to
a destination cloud bucket associated with a destination data
domain; copying, by the container, the set of data from the source
cloud bucket to the destination cloud bucket based on the source
metadata; and generating, by the container, destination metadata
for the set of data as stored at the destination cloud bucket.
2. The method of claim 1, further comprising: storing the
destination metadata for the set of data as stored at the
destination cloud bucket at a local tier of on-premises storage of
the destination data domain.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein the source cloud bucket and the
destination cloud bucket are located on a single cloud
platform.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein the source cloud bucket is
located on a first cloud storage platform and the destination cloud
bucket is located on a second cloud storage platform.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein the set of data comprises a
plurality of data regions of one or more data object containers at
the source cloud bucket.
6. The method of claim 5, wherein the source metadata identifying
the set of data to be migrated comprises a plurality of tuples
identifying each of the plurality data regions of the one or more
data object containers at the source cloud bucket.
7. The method of claim 6, wherein copying the set of data from the
source cloud bucket to the destination cloud bucket comprises:
retrieving, by the container, the plurality of data regions from
the one or more data object containers of the source cloud bucket;
generating, by the container a destination container for the
plurality of data regions; and copying, by the container, the
plurality of data regions to the destination container.
8. A system comprising: a memory; and a processing device
operatively coupled to the memory, the processing device to perform
operations comprising: generating a container on a cloud platform;
receiving, at the container, source metadata identifying a set of
data to be migrated from a source cloud bucket associated with a
source data domain to a destination cloud bucket associated with a
destination data domain; copying, by the container, the set of data
from the source cloud bucket to the destination cloud bucket based
on the source metadata; and generating, by the container,
destination metadata for the set of data as stored at the
destination cloud bucket.
9. The system of claim 8, further comprising: storing the
destination metadata for the set of data as stored at the
destination cloud bucket at a local tier of on-premises storage of
the destination data domain.
10. The system of claim 8, wherein the source cloud bucket and the
destination cloud bucket are located on a single cloud
platform.
11. The system of claim 8, wherein the source cloud bucket is
located on a first cloud storage platform and the destination cloud
bucket is located on a second cloud storage platform.
12. The system of claim 8, wherein the set of data comprises a
plurality of data regions of one or more data object containers at
the source cloud bucket.
13. The system of claim 12, wherein the source metadata identifying
the set of data to be migrated comprises a plurality of tuples
identifying each of the plurality data regions of the one or more
data object containers at the source cloud bucket.
14. The system of claim 13, wherein copying the set of data from
the source cloud bucket to the destination cloud bucket comprises:
retrieving, by the container, the plurality of data regions from
the one or more data object containers of the source cloud bucket;
generating, by the container a destination container for the
plurality of data regions; and copying, by the container, the
plurality of data regions to the destination container.
15. A non-transitory machine-readable medium having instructions
stored therein, which when executed by a processor, cause the
processor to perform one or more operations, the operations
comprising: generating a container on a cloud platform; receiving,
at the container, source metadata identifying a set of data to be
migrated from a source cloud bucket associated with a source data
domain to a destination cloud bucket associated with a destination
data domain; copying, by the container, the set of data from the
source cloud bucket to the destination cloud bucket based on the
source metadata; and generating, by the container, destination
metadata for the set of data as stored at the destination cloud
bucket.
16. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 15, further
comprising: storing the destination metadata for the set of data as
stored at the destination cloud bucket at a local tier of
on-premises storage of the destination data domain.
17. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 15, wherein
the source cloud bucket and the destination cloud bucket are
located on a single cloud platform.
18. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 15, wherein
the set of data comprises a plurality of data regions of one or
more data object containers at the source cloud bucket.
19. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 18, wherein
the source metadata identifying the set of data to be migrated
comprises a plurality of tuples identifying each of the plurality
data regions of the one or more data object containers at the
source cloud bucket.
20. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 19, wherein
copying the set of data from the source cloud bucket to the
destination cloud bucket comprises: retrieving, by the container,
the plurality of data regions from the one or more data object
containers of the source cloud bucket; generating, by the container
a destination container for the plurality of data regions; and
copying, by the container, the plurality of data regions to the
destination container.
Description
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
[0001] Embodiments of the present invention relate generally to
data storage systems. More particularly, embodiments of the
invention relate to consolidation and migration of cloud data.
BACKGROUND
[0002] Data domain (DD) storage solutions provide for migrating of
files from on- premises active tier to object storage located in
the cloud for long term retention and cost savings. The data can be
de-duplicated and stored in containers consisting of compression
regions of the segments. As files are migrated from on-premises
active tiers to the cloud tier, the data containers are written as
objects in a cloud bucket or cloud object store.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0003] Embodiments of the invention are illustrated by way of
example, and not limitation, in the figures of the accompanying
drawings in which like references indicate similar elements.
[0004] FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a storage system
according to one embodiment of the invention.
[0005] FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating an example file
system to migrate cloud data from one cloud bucket to another,
according to one embodiment of the disclosure.
[0006] FIG. 3 depicts an example of a copy forward of data from a
source cloud bucket to a destination cloud bucket according to one
embodiment of the disclosure.
[0007] FIG. 4 is a flow diagram illustrating an example of
migrating data between cloud buckets, according to one embodiment
of the disclosure.
[0008] FIG. 5 is a flow diagram illustrating another example of
migrating data between cloud buckets according to one
embodiment.
[0009] FIG. 6 is block diagram illustrating an example of a
computing system that may be used in conjunction with one or more
embodiments of the disclosure.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
[0010] Various embodiments and aspects of the inventions will be
described with reference to details discussed below, and the
accompanying drawings will illustrate the various embodiments. The
following description and drawings are illustrative of the
invention and are not to be construed as limiting the invention.
Numerous specific details are described to provide a thorough
understanding of various embodiments of the present invention.
However, in certain instances, well-known or conventional details
are not described in order to provide a concise discussion of
embodiments of the present inventions.
[0011] Reference in the specification to "one embodiment" or "an
embodiment" means that a particular feature, structure, or
characteristic described in conjunction with the embodiment can be
included in at least one embodiment of the invention. The
appearances of the phrase "in one embodiment" in various places in
the specification do not necessarily all refer to the same
embodiment.
[0012] A data domain of a distributed file system can include a
cloud tier solution in which data of the data domain is stored at a
cloud bucket (e.g., object storage) of a cloud provider. For
example, users of a data domain may migrate files from on-premises
nodes of a distributed file system to object storage in the cloud
for long term retention of the data and for cost savings. The data
stored in the cloud may be de-duplicated and stored in containers
consisting of compression region segments. As files are migrated
from on-premises active-tier to the cloud-tier, the data containers
are written as objects in the cloud bucket, or cloud object store.
The metadata of the objects (e.g., fingerprint, object-id, etc.) is
stored locally on the on- premises data domain nodes for efficient
deduplication and garbage collection of dead data.
[0013] In some circumstances, a customer may begin use of data
domain systems with several small capacity data domain systems each
having its own cloud tier with a separate cloud bucket. When
customers move to a larger capacity data domain system the customer
may prefer to consolidate the cloud buckets from the smaller
capacity data domain systems into one cloud bucket attached to the
larger data domain system. In another example, customers may
migrate data from one cloud storage tier to another. For example,
cloud providers may offer several tiers of cloud storage, ranging
from faster block storage, slower object storage, slowest cloud
storage, etc., each varying in access latency and cost. As such,
customers may migrate infrequently accessed data to slower, less
expensive tiers. Customers may also migrate data from a current
cloud provider to a new cloud provider.
[0014] To perform any of the migrations or consolidations between
cloud buckets, conventional data domain systems recall the data
from the cloud buckets to the corresponding on-premises data domain
systems. The data is then moved to the destination data domain
system and then finally moved to the cloud bucket attached to the
destination data domain. Thus, the data must make three moves to
reach the destination cloud bucket. The egress costs of the data
from the cloud provider to the on-premises data domain may be
substantial. For example, the egress consumes large amounts of
network bandwidth and incurs network latencies. Therefore,
migration or consolidation of data across cloud buckets or provider
in conventional systems are very slow and prohibitively expensive.
Furthermore, conventional systems require staging storage space at
the on-premises source and destination data domain storage systems
before moving the data to the destination cloud bucket.
[0015] Embodiments of the present disclosure address the above, and
other, issues of the conventional systems. In particular, the
present disclosure provides for methods of efficient migration and
consolidation of cloud data between cloud buckets. When migrating
data from a first cloud bucket to a second cloud bucket, processing
logic identifies the data segments that are to be migrated and
generates a virtual compute instance (i.e., a container). The
container may receive, from the on-premises data domain system,
metadata identifying the data of the source bucket to be migrated
to the destination cloud bucket. The container may then copy the
cloud data identified by the metadata from the source destination
to the destination cloud bucket. The container can then generate
metadata for the data copied to the source destination and provide
the metadata to the on-premises data domain system for the
destination cloud bucket.
[0016] Accordingly, the present disclosure improves the migration
of data between cloud buckets by avoiding egress costs due to data
movement between cloud buckets within the same region, saves
network bandwidth, and reduces latency of data movement.
Additionally, embodiments of the present disclosure reduce storage
staging requirements at the on-premises source and destination
systems and prevents multiple transfers of data during the data
migration.
[0017] In one embodiment, a method of migrating or consolidating
cloud data includes generating a container on a cloud platform and
receiving, at the container, source metadata identifying a set of
data to be migrated from a source cloud bucket associated with a
source data domain to a destination cloud bucket associated with a
destination data domain. The method further includes copying, by
the container, the set of data from the source cloud bucket to the
destination cloud bucket based on the source metadata and
generating, by the container, destination metadata for the set of
data as stored at the destination cloud bucket.
[0018] In one embodiment, the method further includes storing the
destination metadata for the set of data as stored at the
destination cloud bucket at a local tier of on-premises storage of
the destination data domain. In one embodiment, the source cloud
bucket and the destination cloud bucket are located on a single
cloud platform. In an alternative embodiment, the source cloud
bucket is located on a first cloud storage platform and the
destination cloud bucket is located on a second cloud storage
platform. In one embodiment, the set of data comprises a plurality
of data regions of one or more data object containers at the source
cloud bucket.
[0019] In one embodiment, the source metadata identifying the set
of data to be migrated comprises a plurality of tuples identifying
each of the plurality data regions of the one or more data object
containers at the source cloud bucket. In one embodiment, copying
the set of data from the source cloud bucket to the destination
cloud bucket includes retrieving, by the container, the plurality
of data regions from the one or more data object containers of the
source cloud bucket, generating, by the container a destination
container for the plurality of data regions, and copying, by the
container, the plurality of data regions to the destination
container.
[0020] In one embodiment, a system includes a memory and a
processing device operatively coupled to the memory to perform
operations including generating a container on a cloud platform and
receiving, at the container, source metadata identifying a set of
data to be migrated from a source cloud bucket associated with a
source data domain to a destination cloud bucket associated with a
destination data domain. The operations further include copying, by
the container, the set of data from the source cloud bucket to the
destination cloud bucket based on the source metadata and
generating, by the container, destination metadata for the set of
data as stored at the destination cloud bucket.
[0021] In one embodiment, a non-transitory machine-readable medium
having instructions stored therein, which when executed by a
processor, cause the processor to perform one or more operations,
the operations including generating a container on a cloud platform
and receiving, at the container, source metadata identifying a set
of data to be migrated from a source cloud bucket associated with a
source data domain to a destination cloud bucket associated with a
destination data domain. The operations further include copying, by
the container, the set of data from the source cloud bucket to the
destination cloud bucket based on the source metadata and
generating, by the container, destination metadata for the set of
data as stored at the destination cloud bucket.
[0022] FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a storage system
according to one embodiment of the invention. Referring to FIG. 1,
system 100 includes, but is not limited to, one or more client
systems 101-102 communicatively coupled to storage system 104 over
network 103. Clients 101-102 may be any type of clients such as a
host or server, a personal computer (e.g., desktops, laptops, and
tablets), a "thin" client, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a
Web enabled appliance, or a mobile phone (e.g., Smartphone), etc.
Alternatively, any of clients 101-102 may be a primary storage
system (e.g., local data center) that provides storage to other
local clients, which may periodically back up the content stored
therein to a backup storage system (e.g., a disaster recovery site
or system), such as storage system 104. Network 103 may be any type
of networks such as a local area network (LAN), a wide area network
(WAN) such as the Internet, a fiber network, a storage network, or
a combination thereof, wired or wireless. Clients 101-102 may be in
physical proximity or may be physically remote from one another.
Storage system 104 may be located in proximity to one, both, or
neither of clients 101-102.
[0023] Storage system 104 may include or represent any type of
servers or a cluster of one or more servers (e.g., cloud servers).
For example, storage system 104 may be a storage server used for
various different purposes, such as to provide multiple users or
client systems with access to shared data and/or to back up (or
restore) data (e.g., mission critical data). Storage system 104 may
provide storage services to clients or users via a variety of
access interfaces and/or protocols such as file-based access
protocols and block-based access protocols. The file-based access
protocols may include the network file system (NFS) protocol,
common Internet file system (CIFS) protocol, and direct access file
system protocol, etc. The block-based access protocols may include
the small computer system interface (SCSI) protocols, Internet SCSI
or iSCSI, and Fibre channel (FC) protocol, etc. Storage system 104
may further provide storage services via an object-based protocol
and Hadoop distributed file system (HDFS) protocol.
[0024] In one embodiment, storage system 104 includes, but is not
limited to, storage service engine 106 (also referred to as service
logic, service module, or service unit, which may be implemented in
software, hardware, or a combination thereof), optional
deduplication logic, and one or more storage nodes or devices
108-109 communicatively coupled to each other. Storage service
engine 106 may represent any storage service related components
configured or adapted to provide storage services (e.g., storage as
a service) to a variety of clients using any of the access
protocols set forth above. For example, storage service engine 106
may include backup logic 121 and restore logic 122. Backup logic
121 is configured to receive and back up data from a client (e.g.,
clients 101-102) and to store the backup data in any one or more of
storage nodes 108-109. Restore logic 122 is configured to retrieve
and restore backup data from any one or more of storage nodes
108-109 back to a client (e.g., clients 101-102).
[0025] In one embodiment, service engine/logic 106 may include a
cloud migration module 125. Cloud migration module 125 may migrate
or consolidate cloud data from one cloud bucket of a data domain
system to another cloud bucket of a different data domain system.
For example, cloud migration module 125 may include or may generate
a container, or other cloud compute instance, to receive metadata
from the first data domain system identifying data in the first
cloud bucket to be migrated to the second cloud bucket. The
container may use the metadata to retrieve and copy the cloud data
from the first cloud bucket to the second cloud bucket. The
container may then generate metadata for the data as stored at teh
second cloud bucket and provide the metadata to the second data
domain (e.g., on premises nodes) to store the metadata. The
metadata can then be used by the second data domain to manage and
retrieve the data from the second cloud bucket.
[0026] Storage nodes 108-109 may be implemented locally (e.g.,
single node operating environment) or remotely (e.g., multi-node
operating environment) via interconnect 120, which may be a bus
and/or a network (e.g., a storage network or a network similar to
network 103). Storage nodes 108-109 may include a single storage
device such as a hard disk, a tape drive, a semiconductor memory,
multiple storage devices such as a redundant array system (e.g., a
redundant array of independent disks (RAID)), a system for storage
such as a library system or network attached storage system, or any
other appropriate storage device or system. Some of storage nodes
108-109 may be located locally or remotely accessible over a
network.
[0027] In one embodiment, storage system 104 further includes a
storage manager or storage controller (not shown) configured to
manage storage resources of storage system 104, such as, for
example, storage space and processing resources (e.g., processor,
memory, network resources). The storage manager or controller may
be accessed by an administrator of management console or server 160
remotely via a management or configuration interface (not shown).
The administrator can provision and manage storage resources based
on a set of policies, rules, and/or service level agreements. The
storage resources may be virtualized into a pool of virtual storage
resources, where underlying physical storage resources represented
by the corresponding virtual storage resources may be implemented
locally, remotely (e.g., hosted by another storage system), or
both. The virtual storage resources can be provisioned, allocated,
and/or defined by an administrator or automatically by the storage
manager based on a set of software-defined policies. The virtual
storage resources may be represented in one or more virtual
machines (e.g., virtual storage systems) managed by one or more
virtual machine managers (VMMs). Each of the virtual machines can
be provisioned to provide a particular type of storage services
(e.g., file-based, block-based, object-based, or HDFS) to a client
based on a storage policy or service level agreement associated
with that particular client as part of software-defined storage
services.
[0028] FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating an example file
system 200 to migrate cloud data from one cloud bucket to another.
File system 200 includes a source data domain file system 210
associated with a source cloud bucket 232. The data domain file
system 210 may be a distributed file system associated with a
namespace. The data domain file system 210 may include an active
storage tier 212 and cloud tier metadata 214. The active storage
tier 212 may be on-premises storage providing for fast access of
data stored at the active tier 212. The cloud tier metadata 214 may
include metadata associated with data stored at the source cloud
bucket 232. The data domain file system 210 may use the cloud tier
metadata 214 stored locally at the data domain file system 210 to
manage the data stored at the cloud bucket 232. For example, cloud
tier metadata 214 may include object identifiers, compression
region offsets, compression region sizes, etc. of data stored in
the source cloud bucket 232.
[0029] File system 200 further includes a destination data domain
file system 220 associated with a destination cloud bucket 234.
Similar to data domain file system 210, the destination data domain
file system 220 may be a distributed file system associated with
another namespace. The destination data domain file system 210 may
also include an active storage tier 222 and cloud tier metadata
224. The active storage tier 222 may be on-premises storage
providing for fast access of data stored at the active tier 222.
The cloud tier metadata 224 may include metadata associated with
data stored at the destination cloud bucket 234. The destination
data domain file system 210 may use the cloud tier metadata 224
stored locally at the data domain file system 220 to manage the
data stored at the cloud bucket 234. For example, cloud tier
metadata 224 may include object identifiers, compression region
offsets, compression region sizes, etc. of data stored in the
destination cloud bucket 2324
[0030] Cloud platform may be a collection of third-party managed
computing resources located off-premises from the data domain file
systems 210 and 220. Cloud platform 230 may be coupled to the
source data domain file system 210 and the destination data domain
file system via a network. Accordingly, conventional methods of
data migration between the cloud buckets that would recall the data
from the source cloud bucket 232 to the data domain file system 210
and then transfer the data to the destination domain file system
followed by uploading the data to the destination cloud bucket 234
may cause substantial network traffic and latencies. Embodiments of
the present disclosure include generating a migration container 225
at the cloud platform 230 to perform migration of data from source
cloud bucket 232 to destination cloud bucket 234 without recalling
the data to the local on-premises data domain file systems.
[0031] The cloud platform 230 may include processing logic (e.g.,
cloud migration module 125 described with respect to FIG. 1) to
generate the migration container 225 in response to a request to
migrate data from the source cloud bucket 232 to destination cloud
bucket 234. The data domain file system 210 may then provide, to
the migration container 225, metadata associated with the data to
be migrated. The metadata may include one or more tuples
identifying the data to be migrated and the storage location in the
source cloud bucket 232 of the data to be migrated. The migration
container 225 may then retrieve the data from the source cloud
bucket 232 using the metadata (i.e., tuples) received from the data
domain file system 210. The migration container 225 may then copy
the data retrieved from the source cloud bucket 232 to the
destination cloud bucket 234 and generate access and management
metadata associated with the storage locations, size, etc. of the
data as stored at the destination cloud bucket 234. The migration
container 225 may then provide the access and management metadata
to the data domain file system 220 to be stored in the cloud tier
metadata 224. Therefore, the data domain file system 220 may use
the cloud tier metadata 224 to access and manage the data migrated
from the source cloud bucket 232. As such, only the metadata for
the migrated data is transferred between local on-premises data
domains and the cloud platform 230, reducing network traffic and
latencies.
[0032] FIG. 3 depicts an example of a copy forward 300 of data from
a source cloud bucket to a destination cloud bucket. In one
example, a data domain file system is an inline data de-duplication
file system. As data gets written to the file system, the DDFS
breaks the data into variable sized segments. A group of the
segments are packed in a compression region. Compression regions
are then grouped together and written as a container to storage.
The DDFS also calculates a fingerprint signature for each data
segment (e.g., using SHA1algorithm) and includes an on-disk
fingerprint index table. The fingerprint index table maps the
fingerprint of each of the data segments to a container-id of the
container that includes the data segment. A data object container
can include a metadata section followed by several data sections.
The data sections store the compression regions while the container
metadata section stores the meta information of the container
(i.e., the total number of compression regions, the total number of
segments, the fingerprint of each segment, the encryption, and
compression information of the compression regions, etc.). However,
when data is written to the cloud (e.g., a cloud bucket) the
metadata sections are stored at a container locally at an
on-premises data domain system while the actual data sections are
stored in the cloud bucket.
[0033] For example, FIG. 3 depicts three containers, container A,
container B, and container C. Each of the containers include
several data regions, some of which may be live data regions while
others are dead data regions (e.g., data that has been garbage
collected). As described above, to migrate data from one cloud
bucket to another, a source data domain may provide a container
executing on the cloud platform with a set of tuples (herein
referred to as a "recipe") of the data that is to be migrated. The
recipe may include tuples, or metadata, identifying all, or a
portion, of the live data regions of containers (e.g., containers
A, B, and C) stored in a cloud bucket that are to be migrated.
Using the tuples from the recipe, the compute instance may copy the
data regions identified by the tuples to a newly generated
container (i.e., container D) at the destination cloud bucket.
[0034] FIG. 4 is a flow diagram illustrating a process 400 of
migrating data between cloud buckets according to one embodiment of
the invention. Process 400 may be performed by processing logic
that includes hardware (e.g. circuitry, dedicated logic, etc.),
software (e.g., embodied on a non-transitory computer readable
medium), or a combination thereof. For example, process 400 may be
performed by cloud migration module 125 of FIG. 1.
[0035] Referring to FIG. 4, the process begins at block 410, where
processing logic generates a container on a cloud platform.
[0036] At block 420, the processing logic receives metadata
identifying a set of data to be migrated from a source cloud bucket
associated with a source data domain to a destination cloud bucket
associated with a destination data domain. In one example, the set
of data comprises a plurality of data regions of one or more data
object containers at the source cloud bucket. In another example,
the metadata identifying the set of data to be migrated comprises a
plurality of tuples identifying each of the plurality data regions
of the one or more data object containers at the source cloud
bucket.
[0037] At block 430, the processing logic copies the set of data
from the source cloud bucket to the destination cloud bucket. In
one example, the source cloud bucket and the destination cloud
bucket are located on a single cloud platform. In another example,
the source cloud bucket is located on a first cloud storage
platform and the destination cloud bucket is located on a second
cloud storage platform. In one example, to copy the set of data
from the source cloud bucket to the destination cloud bucket the
processing logic retrieves the plurality of data regions from the
one or more data object containers of the source cloud bucket,
generates a destination container for the plurality of data
regions, and copies the plurality of data regions to the
destination container.
[0038] At block 440, the processing logic generates destination
metadata for the set of data as stored at the destination cloud
bucket. The processing logic may further store the destination
metadata for the set of data as stored at the destination cloud
bucket at a local tier of on-premises storage of the destination
data domain.
[0039] FIG. 5 is a flow diagram illustrating a process 500 of
migrating data from a source cloud bucket to a destination cloud
bucket according to one embodiment of the invention. Process 500
may be performed by processing logic that includes hardware (e.g.
circuitry, dedicated logic, etc.), software (e.g., embodied on a
non-transitory computer readable medium), or a combination thereof.
For example, process 500 may be performed by cloud migration module
125 of FIG. 1.
[0040] Referring to FIG. 5, the process begins at block 502, where
processing logic enumerates the namespace of a source data domain
system with cloud buckets that need to be migrated and identifies
the files residing in the source cloud buckets to be migrated.
[0041] At block 504, the processing logic enumerates the identified
cloud files on the source node and populates an in-memory
fingerprint vector corresponding to the data segments and metadata
segments of the identified files. The processing logic may populate
the in-memory fingerprint vector by generating or identifying
fingerprints for data segments (e.g., compressions region) in the
data domain system, applying a hash function to the fingerprints,
and setting a corresponding bit of the fingerprint vector in
memory. For example, metadata containers located at the source data
domain system may store the metadata for each of the data segment
containers stored at the source cloud bucket. The metadata of each
of the data segment containers includes fingerprints and
information (e.g., object identifiers, compression region offsets,
compression region sizes, etc.) for each compression region of data
segment containers. The processing logic may scan the metadata
containers at the source data domain system and perform a lookup of
each fingerprint from the metadata container in the in-memory
fingerprint vector. If the fingerprint bit corresponding to the
fingerprint being looked up, the corresponding data segment may
need to be migrated to the destination cloud bucket. The data
segments may map to an object identifier which may be associated
with the metadata (e.g., offset and length) needed to identify and
retrieve the data to be migrated from the source cloud bucket to
the destination cloud bucket.
[0042] At block 506, the processing logic performs a lookup for
each fingerprint from the metadata containers in the in-memory
fingerprint bit vector and generates tuples for the data segments
of the containers. At block 508, the processing logic generates a
cloud compute instance. For example, the cloud compute instance may
be a container (e.g., docker container), a data domain virtual
edition (DDVE) container, or the like. At block 510, the processing
logic sends the tuple information of the objects (i.e., data
segments stored as objects) that need to be copied along with
source bucket information and destination bucket information to the
cloud compute instance. At block 512, the processing logic reads
(e.g., by the cloud compute instance) the objects corresponding to
the tuples for the data segments (i.e., the recipe) and generates
new objects for the destination cloud bucket to store the data
segments and writes the new objects to the destination bucket.
[0043] At block 514, the processing logic generates metadata for
the new objects and provides the metadata to the on-premises
destination data domain system. The destination data domain system
may then generate new metadata containers to store references to
the new objects stored at the destination cloud bucket. At block
516, the processing logic updates the namespace information on the
source and destination data domain systems based on the migrated
data. Accordingly, the cloud files identified at the source cloud
bucket at block 504 may appear on the destination data domain
system with the location of the files pointing to the destination
cloud bucket.
[0044] Note that some or all of the components as shown and
described above may be implemented in software, hardware, or a
combination thereof. For example, such components can be
implemented as software installed and stored in a persistent
storage device, which can be loaded and executed in a memory by a
processor (not shown) to carry out the processes or operations
described throughout this application. Alternatively, such
components can be implemented as executable code programmed or
embedded into dedicated hardware such as an integrated circuit
(e.g., an application specific IC or ASIC), a digital signal
processor (DSP), or a field programmable gate array (FPGA), which
can be accessed via a corresponding driver and/or operating system
from an application. Furthermore, such components can be
implemented as specific hardware logic in a processor or processor
core as part of an instruction set accessible by a software
component via one or more specific instructions.
[0045] FIG. 6 is a block diagram illustrating an example of a data
processing system which may be used with one embodiment of the
invention. For example, system 1500 may represent any of data
processing systems described above performing any of the processes
or methods described above. System 1500 can include many different
components. These components can be implemented as integrated
circuits (ICs), portions thereof, discrete electronic devices, or
other modules adapted to a circuit board such as a motherboard or
add- in card of the computer system, or as components otherwise
incorporated within a chassis of the computer system. Note also
that system 1500 is intended to show a high level view of many
components of the computer system. However, it is to be understood
that additional components may be present in certain
implementations and furthermore, different arrangement of the
components shown may occur in other implementations. System 1500
may represent a desktop, a laptop, a tablet, a server, a mobile
phone, a media player, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a
personal communicator, a gaming device, a network router or hub, a
wireless access point (AP) or repeater, a set-top box, or a
combination thereof. Further, while only a single machine or system
is illustrated, the term "machine" or "system" shall also be taken
to include any collection of machines or systems that individually
or jointly execute a set (or multiple sets) of instructions to
perform any one or more of the methodologies discussed herein.
[0046] In one embodiment, system 1500 includes processor 1501,
memory 1503, and devices 1505-1508 via a bus or an interconnect
1510. Processor 1501 may represent a single processor or multiple
processors with a single processor core or multiple processor cores
included therein. Processor 1501 may represent one or more
general-purpose processors such as a microprocessor, a central
processing unit (CPU), or the like. More particularly, processor
1501 may be a complex instruction set computing (CISC)
microprocessor, reduced instruction set computing (RISC)
microprocessor, very long instruction word (VLIW) microprocessor,
or processor implementing other instruction sets, or processors
implementing a combination of instruction sets. Processor 1501 may
also be one or more special-purpose processors such as an
application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), a cellular or
baseband processor, a field programmable gate array (FPGA), a
digital signal processor (DSP), a network processor, a graphics
processor, a network processor, a communications processor, a
cryptographic processor, a co-processor, an embedded processor, or
any other type of logic capable of processing instructions.
[0047] Processor 1501, which may be a low power multi-core
processor socket such as an ultra-low voltage processor, may act as
a main processing unit and central hub for communication with the
various components of the system. Such processor can be implemented
as a system on chip (SoC). Processor 1501 is configured to execute
instructions for performing the operations and steps discussed
herein. System 1500 may further include a graphics interface that
communicates with optional graphics subsystem 1504, which may
include a display controller, a graphics processor, and/or a
display device.
[0048] Processor 1501 may communicate with memory 1503, which in
one embodiment can be implemented via multiple memory devices to
provide for a given amount of system memory. Memory 1503 may
include one or more volatile storage (or memory) devices such as
random access memory (RAM), dynamic RAM (DRAM), synchronous DRAM
(SDRAM), static RAM (SRAM), or other types of storage devices.
Memory 1503 may store information including sequences of
instructions that are executed by processor 1501, or any other
device. For example, executable code and/or data of a variety of
operating systems, device drivers, firmware (e.g., input output
basic system or BIOS), and/or applications can be loaded in memory
1503 and executed by processor 1501. An operating system can be any
kind of operating systems, such as, for example, Windows.RTM.
operating system from Microsoft.RTM., Mac OS.RTM./iOS.RTM. from
Apple, Android.RTM. from Google.RTM., Linux.RTM., Unix.RTM., or
other real-time or embedded operating systems such as VxWorks.
[0049] System 1500 may further include IO devices such as devices
1505-1508, including network interface device(s) 1505, optional
input device(s) 1506, and other optional IO device(s) 1507. Network
interface device 1505 may include a wireless transceiver and/or a
network interface card (NIC). The wireless transceiver may be a
WiFi transceiver, an infrared transceiver, a Bluetooth transceiver,
a WiMax transceiver, a wireless cellular telephony transceiver, a
satellite transceiver (e.g., a global positioning system (GPS)
transceiver), or other radio frequency (RF) transceivers, or a
combination thereof. The NIC may be an Ethernet card.
[0050] Input device(s) 1506 may include a mouse, a touch pad, a
touch sensitive screen (which may be integrated with display device
1504), a pointer device such as a stylus, and/or a keyboard (e.g.,
physical keyboard or a virtual keyboard displayed as part of a
touch sensitive screen). For example, input device 1506 may include
a touch screen controller coupled to a touch screen. The touch
screen and touch screen controller can, for example, detect contact
and movement or break thereof using any of a plurality of touch
sensitivity technologies, including but not limited to capacitive,
resistive, infrared, and surface acoustic wave technologies, as
well as other proximity sensor arrays or other elements for
determining one or more points of contact with the touch
screen.
[0051] IO devices 1507 may include an audio device. An audio device
may include a speaker and/or a microphone to facilitate
voice-enabled functions, such as voice recognition, voice
replication, digital recording, and/or telephony functions. Other
10 devices 1507 may further include universal serial bus (USB)
port(s), parallel port(s), serial port(s), a printer, a network
interface, a bus bridge (e.g., a PCI-PCI bridge), sensor(s) (e.g.,
a motion sensor such as an accelerometer, gyroscope, a
magnetometer, a light sensor, compass, a proximity sensor, etc.),
or a combination thereof. Devices 1507 may further include an
imaging processing subsystem (e.g., a camera), which may include an
optical sensor, such as a charged coupled device (CCD) or a
complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) optical sensor,
utilized to facilitate camera functions, such as recording
photographs and video clips. Certain sensors may be coupled to
interconnect 1510 via a sensor hub (not shown), while other devices
such as a keyboard or thermal sensor may be controlled by an
embedded controller (not shown), dependent upon the specific
configuration or design of system 1500.
[0052] To provide for persistent storage of information such as
data, applications, one or more operating systems and so forth, a
mass storage (not shown) may also couple to processor 1501. In
various embodiments, to enable a thinner and lighter system design
as well as to improve system responsiveness, this mass storage may
be implemented via a solid state device (SSD). However, in other
embodiments the mass storage may primarily be implemented using a
hard disk drive (HDD) with a smaller amount of SSD storage to act
as a SSD cache to enable non-volatile storage of context state and
other such information during power down events so that a fast
power up can occur on re-initiation of system activities. Also a
flash device may be coupled to processor 1501, e.g., via a serial
peripheral interface (SPI). This flash device may provide for
non-volatile storage of system software, including a basic
input/output software (BIOS) as well as other firmware of the
system.
[0053] Storage device 1508 may include computer-accessible storage
medium 1509 (also known as a machine-readable storage medium or a
computer-readable medium) on which is stored one or more sets of
instructions or software (e.g., processing module, unit, and/or
logic 1528) embodying any one or more of the methodologies or
functions described herein. Processing module/unit/logic 1528 may
represent any of the components described above, such as, for
example, the cloud migration module 125 as described above.
Processing module/unit/logic 1528 may also reside, completely or at
least partially, within memory 1503 and/or within processor 1501
during execution thereof by data processing system 1500, memory
1503 and processor 1501 also constituting machine-accessible
storage media. Processing module/unit/logic 1528 may further be
transmitted or received over a network via network interface device
1505.
[0054] Computer-readable storage medium 1509 may also be used to
store the same software functionalities described above
persistently. While computer-readable storage medium 1509 is shown
in an exemplary embodiment to be a single medium, the term
"computer-readable storage medium" should be taken to include a
single medium or multiple media (e.g., a centralized or distributed
database, and/or associated caches and servers) that store the one
or more sets of instructions. The terms "computer-readable storage
medium" shall also be taken to include any medium that is capable
of storing or encoding a set of instructions for execution by the
machine and that cause the machine to perform any one or more of
the methodologies of the present invention. The term
"computer-readable storage medium" shall accordingly be taken to
include, but not be limited to, solid-state memories, and optical
and magnetic media, or any other non-transitory machine-readable
medium.
[0055] Processing module/unit/logic 1528, components and other
features described herein can be implemented as discrete hardware
components or integrated in the functionality of hardware
components such as ASICS, FPGAs, DSPs or similar devices. In
addition, processing module/unit/logic 1528 can be implemented as
firmware or functional circuitry within hardware devices. Further,
processing module/unit/logic 1528 can be implemented in any
combination hardware devices and software components.
[0056] Note that while system 1500 is illustrated with various
components of a data processing system, it is not intended to
represent any particular architecture or manner of interconnecting
the components; as such details are not germane to embodiments of
the present invention. It will also be appreciated that network
computers, handheld computers, mobile phones, servers, and/or other
data processing systems which have fewer components or perhaps more
components may also be used with embodiments of the invention.
[0057] Some portions of the preceding detailed descriptions have
been presented in terms of algorithms and symbolic representations
of operations on data bits within a computer memory. These
algorithmic descriptions and representations are the ways used by
those skilled in the data processing arts to most effectively
convey the substance of their work to others skilled in the art. An
algorithm is here, and generally, conceived to be a self-consistent
sequence of operations leading to a desired result. The operations
are those requiring physical manipulations of physical
quantities.
[0058] It should be borne in mind, however, that all of these and
similar terms are to be associated with the appropriate physical
quantities and are merely convenient labels applied to these
quantities. Unless specifically stated otherwise as apparent from
the above discussion, it is appreciated that throughout the
description, discussions utilizing terms such as those set forth in
the claims below, refer to the action and processes of a computer
system, or similar electronic computing device, that manipulates
and transforms data represented as physical (electronic) quantities
within the computer system's registers and memories into other data
similarly represented as physical quantities within the computer
system memories or registers or other such information storage,
transmission or display devices.
[0059] Embodiments of the invention also relate to an apparatus for
performing the operations herein. Such a computer program is stored
in a non-transitory computer readable medium. A machine-readable
medium includes any mechanism for storing information in a form
readable by a machine (e.g., a computer). For example, a
machine-readable (e.g., computer-readable) medium includes a
machine (e.g., a computer) readable storage medium (e.g., read only
memory ("ROM"), random access memory ("RAM"), magnetic disk storage
media, optical storage media, flash memory devices).
[0060] The processes or methods depicted in the preceding figures
may be performed by processing logic that comprises hardware (e.g.
circuitry, dedicated logic, etc.), software (e.g., embodied on a
non-transitory computer readable medium), or a combination of both.
Although the processes or methods are described above in terms of
some sequential operations, it should be appreciated that some of
the operations described may be performed in a different order.
Moreover, some operations may be performed in parallel rather than
sequentially.
[0061] Embodiments of the present invention are not described with
reference to any particular programming language. It will be
appreciated that a variety of programming languages may be used to
implement the teachings of embodiments of the invention as
described herein.
[0062] In the foregoing specification, embodiments of the invention
have been described with reference to specific exemplary
embodiments thereof. It will be evident that various modifications
may be made thereto without departing from the broader spirit and
scope of the invention as set forth in the following claims. The
specification and drawings are, accordingly, to be regarded in an
illustrative sense rather than a restrictive sense.
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