Remote emulation of a storage system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11444849-B2
Application number	US-202117244698-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 29, 2021
Priority date	Oct 2, 2014
Publication date	Sep 13, 2022
Grant date	Sep 13, 2022

Abstract

Systems, methods, and computer readable storage mediums for using a cloud assist service to generate a read-only GUI to view the status of a storage system. An authorized user can login remotely to the cloud assist service to view the read-only GUI of the storage system. The read-only GUI will present a view of the status of the storage system that is similar to a local GUI available to users connecting directly to the storage system. Responses used to generate the local GUI are recorded and simulated by the cloud assist service to create a familiar read-only GUI.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A system comprising:
a cloud-based system that includes a non-transitory computer readable medium and a computer processor, wherein the non-transitory computer readable medium includes computer program instructions that when executed by the computer processor cause the cloud-based system to:
generate, using historical status information associated with one or more storage systems, responses to a plurality of requests directed to the one or more storage systems as if the cloud-based system was the one or more storage systems associated with the historical status information;
generate, using the generated responses to the plurality of requests, a graphical user interface (GUI) that presents a historical view of a status of the one or more storage systems; and
allow, by the cloud-based system, authorized users to remotely access the GUI.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein generating, using the historical status information associated with the one or more storage systems, the responses to the plurality of requests directed to the one or more storage systems as if the cloud-based system was the one or more storage systems with the historical status information further comprises conveying the historical status information to a subsystem simulator that generates the responses.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more storage systems are configured to generate a local GUI presenting a view of the status of the one or more storage systems, and wherein an appearance of the GUI is substantially similar to an appearance of the local GUI.

4. The system of claim 3 wherein the cloud-based system is configured to generate the GUI to match the local GUI.

5. The system of claim 4 , wherein at least one authorized user is unable to make changes to the one or more storage systems using the GUI.

6. The system of claim 1 wherein the historical status information includes at least one of volume count, queue depth, read bandwidth, read input/output operations per second (TOPS), read latency, write bandwidth, write IOPS, and write latency.

7. The system of claim 1 wherein the cloud-based system is further configured to generate the GUI when the one or more storage systems is offline.

8. A method comprising:
generating, by a cloud-based system using historical status information associated with one or more storage systems, responses to a plurality of requests directed to the one or more storage systems as if the cloud-based system was the one or more storage systems associated with the historical status information;
generating, by the cloud-based system using the generated responses to the plurality of requests, a graphical user interface (GUI) that presents a historical view of a status of the one or more storage systems; and
allowing, by the cloud-based system, authorized users to remotely access the GUI.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein generating, by the cloud-based system using the historical status information associated with the one or more storage systems, the responses to the plurality of requests directed to the one or more storage systems as if the cloud-based system was the one or more storage systems associated with the historical status information comprises conveying the historical status information to a subsystem simulator that generates the responses.

10. The method of claim 8 , wherein the one or more storage systems are configured to generate a local GUI presenting a view of the status of the one or more storage systems, and wherein an appearance of the GUI is substantially similar to an appearance of the local GUI.

11. The method of claim 10 further comprising generating, by the cloud-based system, the GUI to match the local GUI.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein at least one authorized user is unable to make changes to the one or more storage systems using the GUI.

13. The method of claim 8 wherein the historical status information includes at least one of volume count, queue depth, read bandwidth, read input/output operations per second (TOPS), read latency, write bandwidth, write IOPS, and write latency.

14. The method of claim 8 wherein the cloud-based system is further configured to generate the GUI when the one or more storage systems is offline.

15. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing program instructions, wherein the program instructions are executable by a processor to:
generate, by a cloud-based system using historical status information associated with one or more storage systems, responses to a plurality of requests directed to the one or more storage systems as if the cloud-based system was the one or more storage systems associated with the historical status information;
generate, by the cloud-based system using the generated responses to the plurality of requests, a graphical user interface (GUI) that presents a historical view of a status of the one or more storage systems; and
allow, by the cloud-based system, authorized users to remotely access the GUI.

16. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15 wherein generating, by the cloud-based system using the historical status information associated with the one or more storage systems, the responses to a plurality of requests directed to the one or more storage systems as if the cloud-based system was the one or more storage systems associated with the historical status information comprises conveying the historical status information to a subsystem simulator that generates the responses.

17. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15 , wherein the one or more storage systems are configured to generate a local GUI presenting a view of the status of the one or more storage systems, and wherein an appearance of the GUI is substantially similar to an appearance of the local GUI.

18. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 17 further comprising program instructions to generate, by the cloud-based system, the GUI to match the local GUI.

19. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15 , wherein at least one authorized user is unable to make changes to the one or more storage systems using the GUI.

Assignees

• Pure Storage Inc

Inventors

• Colgrove John
• Borowiec Benjamin
• Hasbani Joseph S
• Noik Emanuel G

Classifications

• G06F11/3476 Primary

  Data logging (G06F11/14, G06F11/2205 take precedence) · CPC title

• G06F11/3034

  where the computing system component is a storage system, e.g. DASD based or network based (digital input from or digital output to record carriers G06F3/06; digital recording or reproducing G11B20/18; for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS], H04L67/1097) · CPC title

• H04L67/1097

  for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS] · CPC title

• G06F11/3409

  for performance assessment · CPC title

• H04L41/22 Primary

  comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI] · CPC title