CLONE EFFICIENCY IN A HYBRID STORAGE CLOUD ENVIRONMENT

摘要

An efficient cloning mechanism is provided for a distributed storage environment, where, for example, a private cloud computing environment and a public cloud computing environment are included in a hybrid cloud computing environment (on-premise object storage to off-premise computation resources), to improve computation workloads. The disclosed algorithm forms an efficient cloning mechanism in a hybrid storage environment where the read/write speed of data from the disk is not limited by its angular velocity.

主权项

1. A method for cloning a target dataset within a distributed storage environment, the method comprising:
identifying a current location of the target dataset, the current location being an inner partitioned set of tracks or an outer partitioned set of tracks on a storage disk of the distributed storage environment; determining a target location where the target dataset is to be stored for a cloning operation, based on a pre-defined cloning criteria; and modifying a block of data from the target dataset so that it is stored at the target location; wherein: at least the determining step is performed by computer software running on computer hardware.