Netapp, Inc.

Santosh Anath Rao

Peter Frank Corbett

Pranab Patnaik

Kai Tan

Vivek Venkatesan

Srikumar Natarajan

Geoffrey Stewart Brown

A storage area network (SAN)-attached storage system architecture is disclosed. The storage system provides strongly consistent distributed storage communication protocol semantics, such as SCSI target semantics. The system includes a mechanism for presenting a single distributed logical unit, comprising one or more logical sub-units, as a single logical unit of storage to a host system by associating each of the logical sub-units that make up the single distributed logical unit with a single host visible identifier that corresponds to the single distributed logical unit. The system further includes mechanisms to maintain consistent context information for each of the logical sub-units such that the logical sub-units are not visible to a host system as separate entities from the single distributed logical unit.

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Santa Clara, CA, United States of America

Santosh Anath Rao