Patent ID: 8751456
Filing Date: 2014-06-10
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A file system, comprising: one or more appliances, each logically defining a physical storage cluster, the physical storage cluster including at least one storage device; a tenant logically spanning across said one or more appliances; one or more physical file systems arranged within each of said one or more appliances; one or more bucket sets defining one or more corresponding physical file systems available to said tenant within a corresponding appliance, the one or more bucket sets being assigned to the corresponding appliance based on at least one of a plurality of preset parameters; and an application wide object name space that accesses objects of an application stored in said physical file systems across said one or more appliances in association with said tenant, wherein the application wide object name space is defined by workload, and wherein the workload is partitioned based on at least one of the appliances, the tenant, and the physical file systems.