439 results about "Hybrid storage" patented technology

At least certain embodiments disclose a method, system and apparatus for relocating data between tiers of storage media in a hybrid storage aggregate encompassing multiple tiers of heterogeneous physical storage media including a file system to automatically relocate the data between tiers. The hybrid storage aggregate includes one or more volumes, each volume including a volume block number space spanning at least a first-tier of storage media and a second tier of storage media of the multiple tiers of heterogeneous physical storage media and the hybrid storage aggregate further includes a control module to cooperatively manage the tiers of the multiple tiers of heterogeneous physical storage media and a file system coupled with the control module, the file system including a policy module configured to make policy decisions based on a set of one or more policies and configured to automatically relocate data between different tiers of the multiple tiers of heterogeneous physical storage media based on the set of policies.

A hybrid media storage architecture has a log-structured file system configured to control a plurality of different storage media organized as hybrid storage media that cooperate to provide a total storage space of a storage system. The log-structured file system is configured to perform initial placement and migration of data, as well as fine-grain write allocation of the data, among storage space locations of the hybrid storage media to thereby improve the performance characteristics of the media. By defining and implementing heuristics and policies directed to, e.g., types of data, the file system may initially place data on any of the different media and thereafter migrate data between the media at fine granularity and without the need for manual enforcement.

Methods and arrangements for hybrid data storage are described herein. Embodiments may comprise a hybrid memory controller to facilitate accesses of more than on type of memory device, referred to generally hereafter as a hybrid memory device or hybrid cache device. The hybrid memory controller may include split logic to determine whether to split data of a write request into more than one portion and to store each portion in a different type of data storage device. For example, one embodiment comprises a hybrid memory controller to store data in both SRAM and DRAM devices. The SRAM and DRAM devices may include distinct circuits on a die, distinct dies within a chip, distinct chips on a memory module, distinct memory modules, or the like.

A hybrid storage device comprises both solid-state disk (SDD) and at least one hard disk drive (HDD). The hybrid storage device has at least two operational modes: concatenation and safe. According to one aspect, the total capacity of hybrid storage device is the sum of SSD and at least one HDD in a concatenation or big mode, while the total capacity is the capacity of the HDD in a safe mode. In one embodiment, HDD is configured for storing a copy of the SSD's contents in a reserved area. In another, SSD comprises more than one identical flash memory devices controlled by a RAID controller.

A hybrid memory system includes a central processing unit, a storage device configured to store user data and code data, and a main memory including a volatile memory and a nonvolatile memory, the main memory being configured to receive data necessary to perform an operation of the central processing unit from the storage device and to store the data, a part of the volatile memory being allocated for a cache for data stored in the nonvolatile memory.

A hybrid storage array one using two or more storage device tiers. In one implementation, two tiers may be provided by solid state drives (SSDs) and hard disk drives (HDDs). Host application access patterns of a certain type determined to be relatively slow, such as random writes, are detected. The random writes are collected and written to a special reserve space, such as a portion of the SSD storage tier, referred to as a write cache extension. The write cache extension absorbs such accesses that would otherwise be written to HDD storage directly. Data structures are created in a cache memory local to an array controller representing the location on SSD reserve space to which the writes were committed and a location in the storage system where they were originally intended to go. The write cache extension can be enabled all of the time, or only when the array controller write cache experiences certain operating conditions, such as when its utilization exceeds a certain predetermined amount. The approach improves the overall performance of the hybrid array.

Accessing a hybrid memory using a translation line is disclosed. The hybrid memory comprises a first portion. The translation line maps a first physical memory address to a first line in the first portion. Said mapping provides an indication that the first line is not immediately accessible in the first portion.

The invention discloses a data migration method and a device based on a mixing memory. The data migration method comprises the following steps of: receiving a data write-back command; storing the data to be written back to an SSD (Solid State Disk) of storage equipment when access frequency of the data to be written back in cache equipment is larger than a preset frequency threshold value; storing the data to be written back to an HDD (Hard Disk Drive) of the storage equipment when an access sequence of the data to be written back in the cache equipment is larger than a preset sequence threshold value. The device performs a self-adaptive adjustment to the data stored in the mixing memory, and intelligently migrates a storage position of the data to be written back, so that an SSD loss is reduced to the maximum, an integral service life of the mixing memory is improved, and access delay is reduced, and moreover, resource storage is better utilized and access efficiency is improved.

A data-storage apparatus, a data-storage method and a recording/reproducing system are provided, which effectively use the time elapsing before data is transferred to be written in a recording medium, such as disc-seeking time and disc-rotation standby time, thereby to raise the speed of transferring data. A hybrid storage apparatus has two storage areas, i.e., a disc and a nonvolatile solid-state memory. The disc and the memory have a disc cache area, a system area, and a user area each. If data is transferred from the host apparatus, it is written into the cache area of the nonvolatile solid-state memory that can be accessed at high speed for the first super cluster. While the data being so written, the head is moved to a prescribed position. Any data coming after the head is moved to this position is written into the cache area.

Methods and systems for implementing scalable SDN devices having a flexible data path pipeline having multiple flow tables and a hybrid memory approach are provided. According to one embodiment, an SDN switch performs a method of storing a flow table within a memory device most suitable for the type of rules contained within the flow table. A flow table for use in connection with determining how to process a packet received by the SDN switch is received by the SDN switch. The flow table is stored within a DRAM device of the SDN switch when rules contained within the flow table include keys against which exact matching is performed with fields of the packet. The flow table is stored within a TCAM device of the SDN switch when rules contained within the flow table include keys against which regular expression-based matching is performed with the fields of the packet.

An integrated circuit and methods of operating same are described. In an embodiment of the integrated circuit included is an array of memory cells, where each of the memory cells includes a resistance-change storage element and a thyristor-based storage element coupled in series. In embodiments of the methods included are methods for data transfer, data tracking, and operating a memory array.

A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture are provided for managing a hybrid storage device based upon the properties associated therewith. The storage device includes flash memory and physical storage. Select data is written to the flash memory and is not subject to flushing to the physical storage, and select data is either written directly to the physical storage or written to the flash memory and is subject to flushing to the physical storage.

Disclosed is a low-cost hybrid storage solution that allows Code like sector-alterable NOR and Data like block-alterable NAND and byte-alterable EEPROM being integrated on a same die. The disclosed combo NVM design of the present invention is a truly Data-oriented NVM design that allows 2T-EEPROM to integrate both 0.5T-NAND and 1T-NOR without sacrificing any EEPROM's byte-write performance in the same die. The invention provides several new embodiment sets of preferable bias conditions of Program, Program-Inhibit, Erase and Erase-Inhibit for operating bit-write, byte-write, sector-write and page-write for several preferable Flotox-based EEPROM, NOR and NAND or combo NVM arrays that include types of shared SL, 8-pair BLs and SLS, with or without GBL, normally Erased Vt and Programmed Vt, or the reversed Erased-Vt or Programmed-Vt, etc. Further disclosed is a flexible X-decoder design to allow the flexible selection of pages to be erased to save erase time. Also disclosed is using on-chip negative voltage for FT's gate along with the less positive HV applied to FTs' channel region for same write performance but with the benefits of channel length reduction in cell and less BVDS electric requirement in peripheral devices for more scalable manufacturing process.

The invention discloses a method for realizing energy-saving storing of a hybrid main storage. The method comprises the following steps: constructing the hybrid main storage taking a phase change storage as a main storage and a dynamic random storage as a buffer storage, designing a read-write policy adapting to the structure of the main storage, and reading and writing data in a disc and the phase change storage according to the read-write policy. The invention ensures that the structure of the original main storage is improved, and fully utilizes the advantages of high capacity and low power consumption of the phase change storage and the characteristic of low time delay of the dynamic random storage, so that the hybrid main storage acquires higher capacity on the premise that the power consumption and the time delay are not increased, thereby reducing the times of accessing the disc and realizing energy saving in storing.

The invention belongs to the technical field of operation systems of servers and particularly relates to a method for reducing energy consumption of a server by using mixed storage of a solid-state drive and a mechanical hard disk. The method disclosed by the inventing is specifically realized by the following steps: for a read request of disk data, looking up a read request of disk data from a solid-state drive buffer zone and a cache zone; if the read request is hit, directly returning back to avoid the read operation of the mechanical hard disk; for a read request of disk data, writing a write request of the disk into the solid-state drive buffer zone, then periodically writing back to the mechanical hard disk and sorting the write operation for the disk position before writing back to reduce the invalid motion of a magnetic head; and controlling operation parameters of the mechanical disk according to an actual work load and a data access mode and reducing the rotating speed of the mechanical hard disk during idle operation and even closing the mechanical hard disk, so as to further reduce invalid energy consumption. According to the method, the energy consumption caused by the mechanical hard disk can be reduced and the work efficiency of the server can be increased, and thus the integral energy consumption of the server system is reduced.

A distributed storage system that performs automated load balancing is described. In an exemplary embodiment, a storage controller server determines if there is duplicative data in a distributed storage system. In this embodiment, the storage controller server detects a load balancing event in the distributed storage system, where the distributed storage system includes a plurality of virtual nodes distributed across a plurality of physical nodes. In response to detecting the load balancing event, the storage controller server determines that a current virtual node is to move from a source physical node to a destination physical node. In addition, the current virtual node is one of the plurality of virtual nodes and the source and destination physical nodes are in the plurality of physical nodes. The storage controller server further moves the current virtual node from the source physical node to the destination physical node.

A method, computer program product, and system for rebalancing database table space in a hybrid storage environment of heterogeneous storage units used by a plurality of users to store associated extents. The storage units are ranked according to various performance characteristics such as IOPS rates and power consumption, and the users are ranked according to various characteristics such as whether they have subscribed to standard or premium storage subscriptions. Upon detection of a change in the relative ranking of the users or the storage units, the stored extents are mapped, characterized as standard or priority extents, and redistributed across the storage units if needed to provide higher ranked storage for priority extents and for higher ranked users.

The invention provides a hadoop-based k-means clustering analysis system and method of a network security log. The hadoop-based k-means clustering analysis system comprises a log data acquisition subsystem, a log data mixing mechanism storage management subsystem and a log data analysis subsystem. The method includes the steps that in a data storage layer, a mixing storage mechanism with Hadoop cooperating with a traditional data warehouse is adopted to store log data, a Hive operation interface is provided in a data access layer, the data storage layer and a computing layer receive instructions from a Hive engine, and efficient query analysis on the data is achieved by being matched with MapReduce through HDFS; when mining analysis is conducted on log data, MapReduce is adopted to conduct clustering mining analysis on the network security log through a k-means algorithm; the framework with the Hadoop cooperating with the traditional data warehouse is adopted, the detects of the traditional data warehouse on the aspects of mass data processing, storage and the like, and meanwhile an original traditional data warehouse is fully used; clustering analysis is conducted through the MapReduce-based k-means algorithm, and safety grade evaluation and early warning can be conducted on log data timely.

A hybrid battery charging device includes: input terminals for connecting a photovoltaic panel or other current sources; first battery connections for connecting a lead-acid battery; second battery for connecting a high-cycle chemical battery; a two-way DC/DC converter having a first set of terminals connected with the second battery connections, and a second set of terminals connected with the first battery connections, an input of the second set of terminals being derived from the input terminals; a charge-and-discharge control system which is connected to the DC/DC converter via respective control lines; and output terminals for connecting a load, an input to the output terminals being derived from the first battery connections.

A hybrid memory system. This system can include a processor coupled to a hybrid memory buffer (HMB) that is coupled to a plurality of DRAM and a plurality of Flash memory modules. The HMB module can include a Memory Storage Controller (MSC) module and a Near-Memory-Processing (NMP) module coupled by a SerDes (Serializer/Deserializer) interface. This system can utilize a hybrid (mixed-memory type) memory system architecture suitable for supporting low-latency DRAM devices and low-cost NAND flash devices within the same memory sub-system for an industry-standard computer system.

A hybrid memory module structure includes a channel for receiving data from and transmitting data to a device external to the hybrid memory module structure, a first memory module connected to the channel, and a second memory module connected to the channel. The first memory module includes at least a first memory and a second memory, the first memory being a working memory and the second memory being a storage memory. The second memory module includes at least a third memory and a fourth memory, the third memory being a working memory and the fourth memory being a storage memory. The channel includes a first data line commonly connected to the first memory and the second memory, and a second data line commonly connected to the third memory and the fourth memory.