Alibaba Group Holding Limited
Method and system for facilitating a physically isolated storage unit for multi-tenancy virtualization

Abstract:

One embodiment provides a system which facilitates organization of data. During operation, the system allocates, to a function associated with a host, a number of block columns to obtain a physical storage space for the function, wherein a block column corresponds to a block from each of a plurality of dies of a non-volatile storage device. In response to processing an incoming host write instruction and an internal background write instruction, the system allocates a first block column to the incoming host write instruction and a second block column to the internal background write instruction, thereby extending a lifespan of the non-volatile storage device by recycling the first block column when deleting a namespace or virtual machine associated with the function.