Request ordering support when switching virtual disk replication logs

Storage access requests, such as write requests, are received from a virtual machine. A storage request processing module updates one of multiple virtual disks as directed by each of the storage access requests, and a replication management module stores information associated with each storage acce...

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Hauptverfasser: Newaskar Rahul Shrikant, Kotagiri Sriravi
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Zusammenfassung:Storage access requests, such as write requests, are received from a virtual machine. A storage request processing module updates one of multiple virtual disks as directed by each of the storage access requests, and a replication management module stores information associated with each storage access request in one of multiple logs. The logs can be transferred to a recovery device at various intervals and/or in response to various events, which results in switching logs so that the replication management module stores the information associated with each storage access request in a new log and the previous (old) log is transferred to the recovery device. During this switching, request ordering for write order dependent requests is maintained at least in part by blocking processing of the information associated with each storage access request.