Providing high availability for applications executing on a storage system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10534677-B2
Application number	US-201815909538-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 1, 2018
Priority date	Apr 10, 2017
Publication date	Jan 14, 2020
Grant date	Jan 14, 2020

Abstract

Migrating applications executing on a storage system, including: detecting, by the storage system, that an application executing on a first platform within the storage system should be migrated to a second platform within the storage system; rejecting, by the storage system, all pending input/output (‘I/O’) requests received by the storage system from the application executing on the first platform; and initiating, by the storage system, execution of the application on the second platform.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of providing high availability for applications executing on a storage system, the method comprising:
detecting that an application executing on redundant resources within a first storage controller should be migrated to redundant resources within a second storage controller, including detecting a failover from active resources within the second storage controller to redundant resources within the first storage controller;
in response to detecting the failover, migrating the application to redundant resources within the second storage controller including:
rejecting, by the storage system, all pending input/output (‘I/O’) requests received by the storage system from the application executing on the first storage controller; and
initiating, by the storage system, execution of the application on the second redundant resources within the second storage controller.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein rejecting, by the storage system, all pending input/output (‘I/O’) requests received by the storage system from the application executing on the first storage controller further comprises blocking the application executing on the first storage controller from accessing a logical unit number (‘LUN’).

3. The method of claim 1 wherein detecting a failover from active resources within the second storage controller to redundant resources within the first storage controller further comprises detecting a failover from the second storage system controller to the first storage system controller.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein:
detecting that the application executing on redundant resources within the first storage controller should be migrated to redundant resources within the second storage controller further comprises receiving, from an application monitor that is external to the storage system, an indication that the application executing on the redundant resources within the first storage controller should be migrated to redundant resources within the second storage controller; and
initiating, by the storage system, execution of the application on the redundant resources within the second storage controller further comprises notifying, by the storage system, the application monitor that the application is executing on the redundant resources within the second storage controller.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein configuration information for each storage controller is stored on one or more of the storage devices in the storage system.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein configuration information for the application is stored on one or more of the storage devices in the storage system.

7. An apparatus for providing high availability for applications executing on a storage system, the apparatus including a computer processor and a computer memory, the computer memory including computer program instructions that, when executed, cause the apparatus to carry out the steps of:
detecting that an application executing on redundant resources within a first storage controller should be migrated to redundant resources within a second storage controller, including detecting a failover from active resources within the second storage controller to redundant resources within the first storage controller;
in response to detecting the failover, migrating the application to redundant resources within the second storage controller including:
rejecting, by the storage system, all pending input/output (‘I/O’) requests received by the storage system from the application executing on the first storage controller; and
initiating, by the storage system, execution of the application on the redundant resources within the second storage controller.

8. The apparatus of claim 7 wherein rejecting, by the storage system, all pending input/output (‘I/O’) requests received by the storage system from the application executing on the first storage controller further comprises blocking the application executing on the first storage controller from accessing a logical unit number (‘LUN’).

9. The apparatus of claim 7 wherein detecting a failover from active resources within the second storage controller to redundant resources within the first storage controller further comprises detecting a failover from the second storage system controller to the first storage system controller.

10. The apparatus of claim 7 wherein:
detecting that the application executing on redundant resources within the first storage controller should be migrated to redundant resources within the second storage controller further comprises receiving, from an application monitor that is external to the storage system, an indication that the application executing on the redundant resources within the first storage controller should be migrated to redundant resources within the second storage controller; and
initiating, by the storage system, execution of the application on the redundant resources within the second storage controller further comprises notifying, by the storage system, the application monitor that the application is executing on the redundant resources within the second storage controller.

11. The apparatus of claim 7 wherein configuration information for each storage controller is stored on one or more of the storage devices in the storage system.

12. The apparatus of claim 7 wherein configuration information for the application is stored on one or more of the storage devices in the storage system.

13. A storage system configured for providing high availability for applications, the storage system including a plurality of storage devices, the storage system also including a computer processor and a computer memory, the computer memory including computer program instructions that, when executed, cause the storage system to carry out the steps of:
detecting that an application executing on redundant resources within a first storage controller should be migrated to redundant resources within a second storage controller, including detecting a failover from active resources within the second storage controller to redundant resources within the first storage controller;
in response to detecting the failover, migrating the application to redundant resources within the second storage controller including:
rejecting, by the storage system, pending input/output (‘I/O’) requests received by the storage system from the application executing on the first storage controller; and
initiating, by the storage system, execution of the application on the redundant resources within the second storage controller.

14. The storage system of claim 13 wherein rejecting, by the storage system, all pending input/output (‘I/O’) requests received by the storage system from the application executing on the first storage controller further comprises blocking the application executing on the first storage controller from accessing a logical unit number (‘LUN’).

15. The storage system of claim 13 wherein detecting a failover from active resources within the second storage controller to redundant resources within the first storage controller further comprises detecting a failover from the second storage system controller to the first storage system controller.

16. The storage system of claim 13 wherein:
detecting that the application executing on redundant resources within the first storage controller should be migrated to redundant resources within the second storage controller further comprises receiving, from an application monitor that is external to the storage system, an indication that the application executing on the redundant resources with

Assignees

• Pure Storage Inc

Inventors

• Curley Jonathan
• Jin Yuchen
• Lumb Christopher
• Potashnik Alexei
• Uppugandla Dilip Kumar
• Zankel Christian
• Zheng Xiaojing

Classifications

• G06F11/2092 Primary

  Techniques of failing over between control units · CPC title

• G06F3/067

  Distributed or networked storage systems, e.g. storage area networks [SAN], network attached storage [NAS] · CPC title

• G06F3/0617

  in relation to availability · CPC title

• G06F2201/84

  Using snapshots, i.e. a logical point-in-time copy of the data · CPC title

• G06F11/2071

  using a plurality of controllers · CPC title