Hybrid drive executing biased migration policy during host boot to migrate data to a non-volatile semiconductor memory

BE Jones - US Patent 8,825,976, 2014 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A hybrid drive is disclosed comprising a head actuated overa disk
comprising a plurality of data sectors, and a non-volatile semiconductor memory (NVSM) …

Boot management of non-volatile memory

B Sareen, D Dhokia - US Patent 8,473,670, 2013 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND Flash memory differs from many other types of non-vola tile memory in that
it has a limited and predictable lifetime. While a hard disk may experience random location …

Method and apparatus for virtual machine live storage migration in heterogeneous storage environment

T Li, R Zhou - US Patent 9,195,401, 2015 - Google Patents
Embodiments pertain to live storage migration for virtual machines. Specific embodiments
can implement the migra tion of VM disk images without service interruption to the running …

Method to persistent invalidation to ensure cache durability

K Speer, N Venkat, D Lively - US Patent 9,514,054, 2016 - Google Patents
A method and system of persistent cache invalidation ensures cache durability. A storage
filter driver of a storage input/output (I/O) stack of a server may be used to capture (ie, track) …

Write spike performance enhancement in hybrid storage systems

G McHale, BG Nadeau, BK Panner, PJ Hunter… - US Patent …, 2014 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT 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 …

Systems and methods for scheduling write requests for a solid state storage device

MJ Brooker - US Patent 9,483,189, 2016 - Google Patents
An I/O scheduler can manage and schedule write requests that are sent to a storage device
in order to prevent the write requests from dominating a storage buffer of the storage device …

Data migration between memory locations

J Chang, JJ Meza, P Ranganathan - US Patent 8,966,204, 2015 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND Hybrid memory generally includes two different memory structures to hold
data. One example includes data storage that uses both volatile and non-volatile memory …

Dynamic cache write policy

A Biswas - US Patent 9,058,282, 2015 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND AS cache memory sizes increase, cache structures tend to be more
vulnerable to soft errors (SER) and detectable unre coverable errors (DUE), due to the …

System and method of combined database system

Y Wilf - US Patent 9,223,848, 2015 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A system, including both an OLTP database and awarehouse database,
that is configured to manage the coordination between the OLTP database and the …

Hybrid solid state drive (SSD) using PCM or other high performance solid-state memory

MS Rothberg - US Patent 9,696,934, 2017 - Google Patents
Techniques for implementing a hybrid non-volatile memory storage system are disclosed.
The hybrid memory system may include a first non-volatile memory; a second non-volatile …