Calculating storage utilization for distinct types of data

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12079505-B2
Application number	US-202318190241-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 27, 2023
Priority date	Mar 5, 2018
Publication date	Sep 3, 2024
Grant date	Sep 3, 2024

Abstract

Determining storage consumption in group of storage resources, including for the group of data units within a group of storage resources: for each data unit in the group of data units, determining whether the data unit is associated with one or more client entities; and for each data unit associated with one or more client entities, determining a category for the data unit; calculating storage consumption for a client based on the category of each data unit; and reporting the calculated storage consumption.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method implemented by a computing device comprising a processor and a memory device, the method comprising:
determining, by the computing device, for one or more data units in a group of data units in a storage system, a category for the data unit at a data unit level, wherein the data units are one of a data block, an extent, or a segment;
assigning, by the computing device to the data unit, a number of storage consumption units based on the category of the data unit, including assigning different numbers of storage consumption units for different categories based on an accounting policy; and
presenting, by the computing device, an adjusted per-client storage consumption calculated based on the assigning.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the category for the data unit comprises determining a type of storage object utilizing the data unit.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the storage object is one of a volume and a snapshot.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the group of data units comprises data units from at least two storage systems.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising calculating a storage consumption for a plurality of client entities based on the category of each data unit, wherein the plurality of client entities includes at least one volume and at least one snapshot.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising calculating storage consumption for one or more client entities, wherein units of storage consumption are assigned based on a number of times each data unit is shared between the client entities.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein automatically assigning the number of storage consumption units based on the category of the data unit comprises accounting for compression.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein automatically assigning the number of storage consumption units based on the category of the data unit comprises accounting for snapshots.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein automatically assigning the number of storage consumption units based on the category of the data unit comprises accounting for deduplication.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the accounting policy is selected from a plurality of accounting policies based on a type of client.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein at least one data unit is assigned a fraction of a unit of storage consumption.

12. A group of storage resources comprising a computer processor, a computer memory operatively coupled to the computer processor, the computer memory having disposed within it computer program instructions that, when executed by the computer processor, cause the group of storage resources to carry out the steps of:
determining, for one or more data units in a group of data units, a category for the data unit at a data unit level, wherein the data units are one of a data block, an extent, or a segment;
assigning, to the data unit, a number of storage consumption units based on the category of the data unit, including assigning different numbers of storage consumption units for different categories based on an accounting policy; and
reporting an adjusted per-client storage consumption calculated based on the assigning.

13. The group of storage resources of claim 12 , wherein determining the category for the data unit comprises determining a type of storage object utilizing the data unit.

14. The group of storage resources of claim 12 , further comprising calculating a storage consumption for a plurality of client entities based on the category of each data unit, wherein the plurality of client entities includes at least one volume and at least one snapshot.

15. The group of storage resources of claim 12 , further comprising calculating a storage consumption for one or more client entities, wherein units of storage consumption are assigned based on a number of times each data unit is shared between the client entities.

16. A computer program product disposed upon a computer readable storage medium, the computer program product comprising computer program instructions that, when executed, cause a computer to carry out the steps of:
determining, for one or more data units in a group of data units, a category for the data unit;
assigning, to the data unit, a number of storage consumption units based on the category of the data unit, including assigning different numbers of storage consumption units for different categories based on an accounting policy; and
reporting an adjusted per-client storage consumption calculated based on the assigning.

17. The computer program product of claim 16 , wherein determining the category for the data unit comprises determining a type of storage object utilizing the data unit.

Assignees

• Pure Storage Inc

Inventors

• Fay Matthew
• Neelakantam Naveen
• Karr Ronald
• Vohra Taher

Classifications

• G06F3/0604

  Improving or facilitating administration, e.g. storage management · CPC title

• G06F3/0641

  De-duplication techniques · CPC title

• G06F3/0673

  Single storage device · CPC title

• G06F3/0652

  Erasing, e.g. deleting, data cleaning, moving of data to a wastebasket · CPC title

• G06F3/0688

  Non-volatile semiconductor memory arrays · CPC title