Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi Vantara Corporation

Graham Ellement

Naoki Inoue

Yasuo Hirata

Christopher J Aston

Yukari Hatta

Norimitsu Hayakawa

Ryosuke Matsubara

Hiroyuki Mitome

Simon Carl Johnson

Sathisha Poojary

A storage control system to provide file-level storage and block-level storage services. The storage control system has a computer system including a second I/O unit configured to receive block-level storage related requests, a processor unit, a first memory unit, and a storage unit; and a programmable logic device including a first I/O unit configured to receive file-level storage related requests, an interface unit configured to communicate with the computer system, one or more programmable hardware-implemented processing units and for processing of file-level storage related requests, and a second memory unit. The software components executed on the processor unit include a block-level storage management component and a virtualization management component; and a virtual machine managed by the virtualization management component executes a file-level management component to communicate with the programmable hardware-implemented processing units of the programmable logic device and to manage file-level storage services related to file-level storage related requests.

Storage control system managing file-level and block-level storage services, and methods for controlling such storage control system

Growing community of inventors

Frimley, United Kingdom

Graham Ellement