Patent ID: 8732133
Filing Date: 2014-05-20
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for performing data deduplication for data, the method comprising: deduplication control node performing data dedupiication operations at a deduplication system having one or more deduplication nodes, each deduplication node being a data deduplication node at which data deduplication is performed and each data deduplication node comprising a database in which deduplication data blocks generated by the data deduplication are stored, and wherein the dedupiication control node comprises hardware or a combination of hardware and software; the deduplication control node monitoring a performance characteristic of the deduplication system, wherein the performance characteristic comprises at least one of consumed capacities of the deduplication nodes. available capacities of the deduplidation node, throughput of the deduplication node, frequency of hits to the deduplication nodes, network traffic at the deduplication nodes, or speed of the deduplication nodes; the deduplication control node adding an additional data deduplication node to the deduplication system when the performance characteristic indicates performance of the system below a predetermined minimum; and the additional data deduplication node, when added to the deduplication system performs data deduplication operations, and the additional data deduplication node comprises a database in which deduplication data blocks generated by the data deduplication operations are stored.