NFSv4                                                         J. Lentini
Internet-Draft                                                 M. Eisler
Intended status: Standards Track                                 R. Iyer
Expires: October 2, 2009                                  D. Kenchammana
                                                                A. Madan
                                                                  NetApp
                                                          March 31, 2009


                          NFS Server-side Copy
              draft-lentini-nfsv4-server-side-copy-00.txt

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Abstract

   This document describes a set of NFS operations to offload copying a
   file to a file server or between two file servers.


Table of Contents

   1.  Requirements notation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
   2.  Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
   3.  Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
     3.1.  netloc4 - Network Locations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
     3.2.  Operation T: COPY_NOTIFY - Notify a server of a future
           copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
     3.3.  Operation U: COPY_REVOKE - Revoke a server's copy
           priveleges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
     3.4.  Operation V: COPY - Copy a file on the server  . . . . . .  7
     3.5.  Operation X: COPY_ABORT - Cancel a server-side copy  . . . 11
     3.6.  Operation Y: COPY_STATUS - Report results of a
           server-side copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
     3.7.  Operation Z: CB_COPY - Report results of a server-side
           copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
     3.8.  Copy Offload Stateids  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
   4.  Security Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
   5.  IANA Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
   6.  Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
   Appendix A.  Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
   Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15























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1.  Requirements notation

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
   document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].


2.  Introduction

   This document describes a server-side copy operation for the NFS
   protocol.

   The server-side copy operation provides a mechanism for the NFS
   client to perform a copy operation on the server without the data
   being transmitted back and forth over the network.

   Without this operation, an NFS client copies data from one location
   to another by reading the data from the server over the network, and
   then writing the data back over the network to the server.  Using
   this server-side copy operation, the client is able to instruct the
   server to copy the data locally without the data being sent back and
   forth over the network unnecessarily.

   In general, this feature is useful whenever data is copied from one
   location to another on the server.  It is particularly useful when
   copying the contents of a file from a snapshot.  Snapshot-versions of
   a file are copied for a number of reasons, including restoring and
   cloning data.

   If the source object and destination object are on different file
   servers, the file servers will communicate with one another to
   perform the copy operation.  The server-to-server protocol by which
   this is accomplished is not defined in this document.


3.  Operations

   In the sections that follow, several operations are defined that
   together provide the server-side copy feature.  These operations are
   intended to be OPTIONAL operations as defined in section 17 of
   [NFSv4.1].  The COPY_NOTIFY, COPY, COPY_ABORT, and COPY_STATUS
   operations are designed to be sent within an NFSv4 COMPOUND
   procedure.  The CB_COPY operation is designed to be sent within an
   NFSv4 CB_COMPOUND procedure.







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3.1.  netloc4 - Network Locations

   The server-side copy operations specify network locations using the
   netloc4 data type shown below:

                   enum netloc_type4 {
                           NL4_NAME      = 0,
                           NL4_NETADDR   = 1
                   };

                   union netloc4 switch (netloc_type4 nl_type) {
                           case NL4_NAME:    utf8str_cis nl_name;
                           case NL4_NETADDR: netaddr4    nl_addr;
                   };

   If the netloc4 is of type NL4_NAME, the nl_name field MUST be
   specified as a UTF-8 string.  The nl_name is expected to be resolved
   via DNS, LDAP, NIS, /etc/hosts, or some other means to a network
   address.  If the netloc4 is of type NL4_NETADDR, the nl_addr field
   MUST contain a valid netaddr4.

3.2.  Operation T: COPY_NOTIFY - Notify a server of a future copy

   ARGUMENTS

                   struct COPY_NOTIFY4args {
                           /* CURRENT_FH: source file */
                           netloc4         cna_destination_server;
                   };

   RESULTS

                   union COPY_NOTIFY4res switch (nfsstat4 cnr_status) {
                   case NFS4_OK:
                           nfstime4        cnr_lease_time;
                   default:
                           void;
                   };

   DESCRIPTION

   This operation authorizes a remote server to copy data from the
   recipient.  It instructs the recipient to expect a copy operation
   from the server identified by cna_destination_server on the file
   specified by CURRENT_FH.

   The cna_destination_server MUST be specified using the netloc4
   network location format.  The server is not required to resolve the



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   cna_destination_server address before completing this operation.

   If this operation succeeds, the recipient will allow the
   cna_destination_server to copy the specified file exactly once before
   the copy lease time cnr_lease_time expires.  The cnr_lease_time is
   chosen by the server.  To renew the copy lease time the client should
   resend the same copy notification request to the source server.

   To avoid the need for synchronized clocks, copy lease times are
   granted by the server as a time delta.  However, there is a
   requirement that the client and server clocks do not drift
   excessively over the duration of the lease.  There is also the issue
   of propagation delay across the network which could easily be several
   hundred milliseconds as well as the possibility that requests will be
   lost and need to be retransmitted.

   To take propagation delay into account, the client should subtract it
   from copy lease times (e.g. if the client estimates the one-way
   propagation delay as 200 milliseconds, then it can assume that the
   lease is already 200 milliseconds old when it gets it).  In addition,
   it will take another 200 milliseconds to get a response back to the
   server.  So the client must send a lease renewal or send the copy
   offload request to the cna_destination_server at least 400
   milliseconds before the copy lease would expire.  If the propagation
   delay varies over the life of the lease (e.g. the client is on a
   mobile host), the client will need to continuously subtract the
   increase in propagation delay from the copy lease times.

   The server's copy lease period configuration should take into account
   the network distance of the clients that will be accessing the
   server's resources.  It is expected that the lease period will take
   into account the network propagation delays and other network delay
   factors for the client population.  Since the protocol does not allow
   for an automatic method to determine an appropriate copy lease
   period, the server's administrator may have to tune the copy lease
   period.

   For a copy only involving one server (the source and destination are
   on the same server), this operation is unnecessary.

   The COPY_NOTIFY operation may fail for the following reasons:

   NFS4ERR_NOSUPP:  The copy offload operation is not supported by the
      NFS server receiving this request.







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3.3.  Operation U: COPY_REVOKE - Revoke a server's copy priveleges

   ARGUMENTS

                   struct COPY_REVOKE4args {
                           /* CURRENT_FH: source file */
                           netloc4         cra_destination_server;
                   };

   RESULTS

                   struct COPY_REVOKE4res {
                           nfsstat4      crr_status;
                   };

   DESCRIPTION

   This operation revokes a remote server's ability to copy data from
   the recipient.  It instructs the recipient to prevent a copy
   operation from the server identified by cra_destination_server on the
   file specified by CURRENT_FH.  If the cra_destination_server has
   already begun copying the file, a successful return from this
   operation indicates that further access will be prevented.

   The cra_destination_server MUST be specified using the netloc4
   network location format.  The server is not required to resolve the
   cra_destination_server address before completing this operation.

   The COPY_REVOKE operation is useful in situations involving an
   asynchronous server-to-server copy.  For example, suppose an NFS
   client initiates a copy of file X from NFS server A to NFS server B.
   If NFS server B decides to perform an asynchronous copy and a network
   partition prevents communication between the NFS client and NFS
   server B (without disrupting communication between the NFS client and
   NFS server A or between NFS server A and NFS server B), the NFS
   client may like to write new information to file X. In this
   situation, the client may treat the copy as a failure and start
   writing to file X regardless of the ultimate status (if the network
   partition is removed and the copy operation does succeeded, the
   contents of the copied file would be uncertain).  However, if the
   client wishes to write sensitive information to file X that NFS
   server B is not intended to see, the client MUST use a COPY_REVOKE
   operation to ensure NFS server B is prevented access to the updates
   to file X.

   For a copy only involving one server (the source and destination are
   on the same server), this operation is unnecessary.




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   If the server supports COPY_NOTIFY, the server is REQUIRED to support
   the COPY_REVOKE operation.

   The COPY_REVOKE operation may fail for the following reasons:

   NFS4ERR_NOSUPP:  The copy offload operation is not supported by the
      NFS server receiving this request.

3.4.  Operation V: COPY - Copy a file on the server

   ARGUMENTS

                   #define COPY4_GUARDED           = 0x00000001;
                   #define COPY4_METADATA          = 0x00000002;
                   #define COPY4_SPACE_RESERVED    = 0x00000004;

                   struct COPY4args {
                           /* SAVED_FH: source file */
                           /* CURRENT_FH: destination directory */
                           offset4                 ca_src_offset;
                           offset4                 ca_dst_offset;
                           length4                 ca_count;
                           uint32_t                ca_flags;
                           component4              ca_destination;
                           netloc4                 ca_source_server<1>;
                   };

   RESULTS

                   union COPY4res switch (nfsstat4 cr_status) {
                           /* CURRENT_FH: destination file */
                   case NFS4_OK:
                           stateid4        cr_callback_id<1>;
                   default:
                           length4         cr_bytes_copied;
                   };

   DESCRIPTION

   The COPY operation request that a file be copied from the location
   specified by the SAVED_FH value to the location specified by the
   combination of CURRENT_FH and ca_destination.

   The SAVED_FH must be a file.  If SAVED_FH is not a file, the
   operation MUST fail and return NFS4ERR_ISDIR.

   In order to set SAVED_FH to the source file handle, the compound
   procedure requesting the COPY will include a sub-sequence of



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   operations such as

                           PUTFH source-fh
                           SAVEFH

   If the request is for a server-to-server copy, the source-fh is a
   filehandle from the source server and the compound procedure is being
   executed on the destination server.  In this case, the source-fh is a
   foreign filehandle on the server receiving the COPY request.  If
   either PUTFH or SAVEFH checked the validity of the filehandle, the
   operation would likely fail and return NFS4ERR_STALE.

   In order to avoid this problem, the minor version incorporating the
   COPY operations will need to make a few small changes in the handling
   of existing operations.  If a server supports the server-to-server
   COPY feature, a PUTFH followed by a SAVEFH MUST NOT return
   NFS4ERR_STALE for either operation.  These restrictions do not pose
   substantial difficulties for servers.  The CURRENT_FH and SAVED_FH
   may be validated in the context of the operation referencing them and
   an NFS4ERR_STALE error returned for an invalid file handle at that
   point.

   The CURRENT_FH and ca_destination together specify the destination of
   the copy operation.  If ca_destination is of 0 (zero) length, then
   CURRENT_FH specifies the target file.  In this case, CURRENT_FH MUST
   be a file and not a directory.  If ca_destination is not of 0 (zero)
   length, the ca_destination argument specifies the file name to which
   the data will be copied within the directory identified by
   CURRENT_FH.  In this case, CURRENT_FH MUST be a directory and not a
   file.

   If the file named by ca_destination does not exist and the operation
   completes successfully, the file will be visible in the file system
   namespace.  If the file does not exist and the operation fails, the
   file MAY be visible in the file system namespace depending on when
   the failure occurs and on the implementation of the NFS server
   receiving the COPY operation.  If the ca_destination name cannot be
   created in the destination file system (due to file name
   restrictions, such as case or length), the operation MUST fail.

   The ca_src_offset is the offset within the source file from which the
   data will be read, the ca_dst_offset is the offset within the
   destination file to which the data will be written, and the ca_count
   is the number of bytes that will be copied.  An offset of 0 (zero)
   specifies the start of the file.  A count of 0 (zero) requests that
   all bytes from ca_src_offset through EOF be copied to the
   destination.  If modifications to the source file overlap with the
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   some, or none of the modifications.  If the source file's end of file
   is being modified in parallel with a copy that specifies a count of 0
   (zero) bytes, the amount of data copied is implementation dependent
   (clients may guard against this case by specifying a non-zero count
   value).

   If the source offset or the source offset plus count is greater than
   or equal to the size of the source file, the operation will fail with
   NFS4ERR_INVAL.  The destination offset or destination offset plus
   count may be greater than the size of the destination file.  This
   allows for the client to issue parallel copies to implement
   operations such as "cat file1 file2 file3 file4 > dest".

   If the destination file is created as a result of this command, the
   destination file's size will be equal to the number of bytes
   successfully copied.  If the destination file already existed, the
   destination file's size may increase as a result of this operation
   (e.g. if ca_dst_offset plus ca_count is greater than the
   destination's initial size).

   If the ca_source_server field is specified, the source of the copy
   operation is on a remote server.  The client is expected to have
   previously issued a successful COPY_NOTIFY request to the remote
   server.  The server-to-server protocol used to copy the data is not
   defined in this document.

   The ca_flags argument allows the copy operation to be customized in
   the following ways using the guarded flag (COPY4_GUARDED), the
   metadata flag (COPY4_METADATA), and the space reserved flag
   (COPY4_SPACE_RESERVED).

   If the guarded flag is set and the destination exists on the server,
   this operation will fail with NFS4ERR_EXIST.

   If the guarded flag is not set and the destination exists on the
   server, the behavior is implementation dependent.

   If the metadata flag is set, the destination's metadata MUST match
   the source's metadata.  In particular, all of the REQUIRED,
   RECOMMENDED, and named attributes of the destination file MUST be the
   same as the source file.  To preserve namespace junctions, if access
   to the source file generates an NFS4ERR_MOVED error, access to the
   destination file MUST also generate an NFS4ERR_MOVED error.  If these
   requirements cannot be met, the server MUST return
   NFS4ERR_ATTRNOTSUPP.

   If the metadata flag is not set, the destination's metadata is
   implementation dependent.



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   If the space reserved flag is set, the operation will only succeed if
   the file server can guarantee that all writes to the copied file will
   not fail due to insufficient space.

   If space_reserved is not set, the space reservation state of the new
   file is implementation dependent.

   If the operation does not result in an immediate failure, the server
   will return NFS4_OK, and the CURRENT_FH will be set to the
   destination's filehandle.  If an immediate failure does occur,
   cr_bytes_copied will be set to the number of bytes copied to the
   destination file before the error occurred.

   A return of NFS4_OK indicates that either the operation is complete
   or the operation was initiated and a callback will be used to deliver
   the final status of the operation.

   If the cr_callback_id is returned, this indicates that the operation
   was initiated and a CB_COPY callback will deliver the final results
   of the operation.  The cr_callback_id stateid is termed a copy
   stateid in this context.  The server is given the option of returning
   the results in a callback because the data may require a relatively
   long period of time to copy.

   If no cr_callback_id is returned, the operation completed
   synchronously and no callback will be issued by the server.  The
   completion status of the operation is indicated by cr_status.

   The COPY operation may fail for the following reasons:

   NFS4ERR_NOSUPP:  The copy offload operation is not supported by the
      NFS server receiving this request.

   NFS4ERR_PARTNER_NOTSUPP:  The remote server does not support the
      server-to-server copy offload protocol.

   NFS4ERR_PARTNER_NO_AUTH:  The remote server does not authorize the
      server-to-server copy offload operation.  This may be due to the
      client's failure to send the COPY_NOTIFY operation to the remote
      server, the remote server receiving the server-to-server copy
      offload request after the copy lease time expired, or for some
      other permission problem.

   NFS4ERR_FBIG:  The copy operation would have caused the file to grow
      beyond the server's limit.






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   NFS4ERR_NOTDIR:  The CURRENT_FH is a file and ca_destination has non-
      zero length.

   NFS4ERR_ISDIR:  The SAVED_FH is a directory, or the CURRENT_FH is a
      directory and ca_destination has zero length.

   NFS4ERR_INVAL:  The source offset or offset plus count are greater
      than or equal to the size of the source file.

   NFS4ERR_DELAY:  The server does not have the resources to perform the
      copy operation at the current time.  The client should retry the
      operation sometime in the future.

   NFS4ERR_METADATA_NOTSUPP:  The destination file cannot support the
      same metadata as the source file.

3.5.  Operation X: COPY_ABORT - Cancel a server-side copy

   ARGUMENTS

                   struct COPY_ABORT4args {
                           /* CURRENT_FH: destination file */
                           stateid4      caa_stateid;
                   };

   RESULTS

                   struct COPY_ABORT4res {
                           nfsstat4      car_status;
                   };

   DESCRIPTION

   The COPY_ABORT operation allows the client to cancel a server-side
   copy operation that it initiated.  This operation may be used to
   cancel a copy when the application that requested the copy exits
   before the operation is completed or for some other reason.

   The request contains the filehandle and copy stateid cookies that act
   as the context for the previously initiated copy operation.

   The result's car_status field indicates whether the cancel was
   successful or not.  A value of NFS4_OK indicates that the copy
   operation was canceled and no callback will be issued by the server.
   A copy operation that is successfully canceled may result in none,
   some, or all of the data copied.

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   support the COPY_ABORT operation.

   The COPY_ABORT operation may fail for the following reasons:

   NFS4ERR_NOSUPP:  The abort operation is not supported by the NFS
      server receiving this request.

   NFS4ERR_RETRY:  The abort failed, but a retry at some time in the
      future MAY succeed.

   NFS4ERR_COMPLETE_ALREADY:  The abort failed, and a callback will
      deliver the results of the copy operation.

   NFS4ERR_SERVERFAULT:  An error occurred on the server that does not
      map to a specific error code.

3.6.  Operation Y: COPY_STATUS - Report results of a server-side copy

   ARGUMENTS

                   struct COPY_STATUS4args {
                           /* CURRENT_FH: destination file */
                           stateid4      csa_stateid;
                   };

   RESULTS

                   union COPY_STATUS4res switch (nfsstat4 cr_status) {
                   case NFS4_OK:
                           length4        csr_bytes_copied;
                   default:
                           void;
                   };

   DESCRIPTION

   The COPY_STATUS operation allows the client to poll the server to
   determine the status of an asynchronous copy operation.  If this
   operation is successful, the number of bytes copied are returned to
   the client.  The failure of this operation does not indicate the
   result of the asynchronous copy in any way.

   If the server supports asynchronous copies, the server is REQUIRED to
   support the COPY_STATUS operation.

   The COPY_STATUS operation may fail for the following reasons:





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   NFS4ERR_NOSUPP:  The copy status operation is not supported by the
      NFS server receiving this request.

   NFS4ERR_BAD_STATEID:  The stateid is not valid (see Copy Offload
      Stateid section below).

   NFS4ERR_EXPIRED:  The stateid has expired (see Copy Offload Stateid
      section below).

3.7.  Operation Z: CB_COPY - Report results of a server-side copy

   ARGUMENTS

                   union copy_info4 switch (nfsstat4 cca_status) {
                   case NFS4_OK:
                           void;
                   default:
                           length4       cca_bytes_copied;
                   };

                   struct CB_COPY4args {
                           nfs_fh4       cca_fh;
                           stateid4      cca_stateid;
                           copy_info4    cca_copy_info;
                   };

   RESULTS

                   struct CB_COPY4res {
                           nfsstat4      ccr_status;
                   };

   DESCRIPTION

   The CB_COPY callback informs the client of the result of a server-
   side copy operation.  The operation is identified by the filehandle
   and stateid arguments.  The result is indicated by the status field.
   If the copy failed, cca_bytes_copied contains the number of bytes
   copied before the failure occurred.

   In the absence of an established backchannel, the server cannot
   signal the completion of the COPY via a CB_COPY callback.  The loss
   of a callback channel would be indicated by the server setting the
   SEQ4_STATUS_CB_PATH_DOWN flag in the sr_status_flags field of the
   SEQUENCE operation.  The client must re-establish the callback
   channel to receive the status of the COPY operation.  Prolonged loss
   of the callback channel could result in the server dropping the COPY
   operation state and invalidating the copy stateid.



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   If the client supports the COPY operation, the client is REQUIRED to
   support the CB_COPY operation.

   The CB_COPY operation may fail for the following reasons:

   NFS4ERR_NOSUPP:  The copy offload operation is not supported by the
      NFS client receiving this request.

3.8.  Copy Offload Stateids

   A server may perform a copy offload operation asynchronously.  An
   asynchronous copy is tracked using a copy offload stateid.  Copy
   offload stateids are include in the COPY, COPY_ABORT, COPY_STATUS,
   and CB_COPY operations.

   Section 8.2.4 of [NFSv4.1] specifies that stateids are valid until
   either (A) the client or server restart or (B) the client returns the
   resource.  Case (A) applies to a copy offload stateid, but case (B)
   does not (there is no way for the client to "return the resources").

   A copy offload stateid will be valid until either (A) the client or
   server restart or (C) the client replies to a CB_COPY operation.

   A copy offload stateid's seqid MUST NOT be 0 (zero).  In the context
   of a copy offload operation, it is ambiguous to indicate the most
   recent copy offload operation using a stateid with seqid of 0 (zero).
   Therefore a copy offload stateid with seqid of 0 (zero) MUST be
   considered invalid.


4.  Security Considerations

   The security considerations pertaining to NFSv4 [RFC3530] apply to
   this document.

   The standard security mechanisms provide by NFSv4 [RFC3530] may be
   used to secure the protocol described in this document.

   For copy operations between distinct source and destination NFS
   servers, the authors expect RPCSEC_GSSv3 to provide a mechanism for
   the client to delegate authority to the destination NFS server to
   pull the data from the source NFS server.


5.  IANA Considerations

   This document has no actions for IANA.




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6.  Normative References

   [NFSv4.1]  S. Shepler, et al., "NFS Version 4 Minor Version 1 (Work
              In Progress)", draft-ietf-nfsv4-minorversion1 , 2008.

   [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.

   [RFC3530]  Shepler, S., Callaghan, B., Robinson, D., Thurlow, R.,
              Beame, C., Eisler, M., and D. Noveck, "Network File System
              (NFS) version 4 Protocol", RFC 3530, April 2003.


Appendix A.  Acknowledgments

   Tom Talpey co-authored an unpublished version of this document.  We
   thank Tom for his contributions, especially with regards to the
   asynchronous completion callback mechanism.

   This document was reviewed by a number of individuals.  We would like
   to thank Arthur Lent, Trond Myklebust, and Dave Noveck for their
   input and advice.


Authors' Addresses

   James Lentini
   NetApp
   1601 Trapelo Rd, Suite 16
   Waltham, MA  02451
   USA

   Phone: +1 781-768-5359
   Email: jlentini@netapp.com


   Mike Eisler
   NetApp
   5765 Chase Point Circle
   Colorado Springs, CO  80919
   USA

   Phone: +1 719-599-9026
   Email: mike@eisler.com
   URI:   http://www.eisler.com






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   Rahul Iyer
   NetApp
   475 East Java Drive
   Sunnyvale, CA  94089
   USA

   Phone: +1 408-822-3980
   Email: iyer@netapp.com


   Deepak Kenchammana
   NetApp
   475 East Java Drive
   Sunnyvale, CA  94089
   USA

   Phone: +1 408-822-4765
   Email: kencham@netapp.com


   Anshul Madan
   NetApp
   3rd Floor, Fair Winds Block EGL Software Park
   Bangalore, Karnataka  560 071
   India

   Phone: +91 80-41843349
   Email: anshul@netapp.com























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