Mounting a shared data store of a server cluster on a client cluster for use as a remote data store

Abstract

The disclosure herein describes mounting a shared data store, remote from a client cluster, as a remote data store on the client cluster. An abstraction interface of the remote data store on the client cluster is configured to receive data operations that are in a local data store-based format. A control path interface is established between the server cluster and the client cluster, and network location data associated with the shared data store is received by the client cluster via the established control path interface. Based on the network location data, a data path interface is established between the client cluster and the shared data store of the server cluster, whereby data operations directed to the abstraction interface of the remote data store on the client cluster are routed to the shared data store of the server cluster via the established data path interface.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A method for remotely mounting a shared data store as a remote data store on a client cluster, the method comprising:
 receiving, by a processor of the client cluster, a request to mount the shared data store of a server cluster as a remote data store of the client cluster, wherein the server cluster is remotely located across a network from the client cluster;   configuring, by the processor, an abstraction interface of the remote data store to be exposed to entities of the client cluster, wherein the abstraction interface is configured to receive data operations that are in a local data store-based format;   establishing, by the processor, a control path interface between the server cluster and the client cluster;   receiving, by the processor, network location data associated with the shared data store of the server cluster via the established control path interface; and   based on the network location data, establishing, by the processor, a data path interface between the shared data store of the server cluster and the remote data store on the client cluster, whereby the shared data store of the server cluster is mounted as the remote data store of the client cluster such that data operations directed to the abstraction interface of the remote data store of the client cluster are routed to the shared data store of the server cluster via the established data path interface.