Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Compaq Computer Corporation, Inc.

Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Compaq Information Technologies Group, L.p.

Dell Products Inc.

Maxxan Systems, Incorporated

Ciphermax, Incorporated

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Hewlett-packard Company

Compact Computer Corp.

Sompong Paul Olarig

Fred Worley

Ramdas P Kachare

Son Truong Pham

Wentao Wu

Michael F Angelo

John Erven Jenne

Jason Martineau

Oscar Prem Pinto

David Schwaderer

Kenneth A Jansen

Stephen Garry Fischer

Ronald Timothy Horan

Matthew Shaun Bryson

Thomas J Bonola

Paul A Santeler

Chi Kim Sides

William David Schwaderer

Vladimir Sadovsky

William F Whiteman

Chris Lionetti

Mark Lyndon Oelke

Harry Rogers

Vikas Sinha

Joseph P Miller

Dale J Mayer

Kushagra Vaid

Ramkrishna V Prakash

Chai S Heng

Chandranil Chakraborttii

James Robert Hamilton

John Edward Larson

Dwight D Riley

David F Heinrich

Phillip M Jones

Darren Arthur Shakib

Shane Michael Chiasson

Gary B Kotzur

Lee B Zaretsky

Jens K Ramsey

Xuebin Yao

Shiv Kumar Rajpal

Hubbert Smith

An Hien Lam

Usha Rajagopalan

Donald J Stoddard

Nazanin Farahpour

Eric Clarence Peterson

Christian L Belady

Paul R Culley

Robert A Lester

Mu-Tien Chang

Gary W Thome

Gary J Piccirillo

Michael J Collins

Shaun L Harris

Nathan Steven Obr

Jerome J Johnson

John MacLaren

Dwight L Barron

Patrick A Raymond

Jeffrey C Stevens

David R Wooten

Hung Q Le

Brian T Purcell

Roger E Tipley

Patrick Lee Ferguson

David J Koenen

Ahmad A J Ali

Praveen Krishnamoorthy

Thomas R Seeman

Philip C Kelly

George David Wisecup

Manali Sharma

Matthew John Schumacher

Clarence Y Mar

Donald Joseph Stoddard

Hawkins Yao

Mike Witkowski

Pamela M Cook

Kevin Eugene Mason

Yasser Zaghloul

Caroline Diana Kahn

Michael Hansen

Frank J Wirtz

Mike T Jackson

Zvika Guz

Marius Strom

Wiley R Flanakin

Christopher M Carbajal

Nat Ballou

Kevin Kaufmann

Brian Cates

William Casperson

Ralph Bestavros

Christopher Lionetti

Koushik Talukder

Derace M Fridel

Dan J Driscoll

A system includes a fabric switch including a motherboard, a baseboard management controller (BMC), a network switch configured to transport network signals, and a PCIe switch configured to transport PCIe signals; a midplane; and a plurality of device ports. Each of the plurality of device ports is configured to connect a storage device to the motherboard of the fabric switch over the midplane and carry the network signals and the PCIe signals over the midplane. The storage device is configurable in multiple modes based a protocol established over a fabric connection between the system and the storage device.

System and method for supporting multi-path and/or multi-mode NMVe over fabrics devices

Data storage systems, devices and methods may use a switch board configured to communicate using a high-speed multi-level signaling protocol, and a midplane having one or more multi-protocol storage device connectors configured to couple the midplane to one or more storage devices, wherein the midplane may be coupled to the switch board and configured to enable the one or more storage devices to communicate with the switch board through the one or more multi-protocol storage device connectors using the high-speed multi-level signaling protocol. The midplane may be coupled to the switch board through one or more high-speed connectors. One or more re-timers may be coupled between one or more of the high-speed connectors and one or more of the multi-protocol storage device connectors. One or more cables may be used to transfer data to and from the multi-protocol storage device connectors.

High-speed data transfers through storage device connectors

Provided are systems, methods, and apparatuses for performing communication management. The method can include: receiving, via a first port, in-band data from a management device; generating routing information for routing the in-band data to at least one storage device in a chassis; applying the routing information to a header of a packet of data associated with the in-band data; and transmitting, via a second port, the in-band data to the storage device based on the routing information.

Systems and methods for communications within a storage chassis using in-band data and out-of-band data

A data storage device includes a memory array for storing data; a host interface for providing an interface with a host computer running an application; a central control unit configured to receive a command in a submission queue from the application and initiate a search process in response to a search query command; a preprocessor configured to reformat data contained in the search query command and generate a reformatted data; and one or more data processing units configured to extract one or more features from the reformatted data and perform a data operation on the data stored in the memory array in response to the search query command and return matching data from the data stored in the memory array to the application via the host interface.

Method and apparatus for supporting machine learning algorithms and data pattern matching in ethernet SSD

A rack-mounted system includes a chassis, a switchless board disposed in the chassis, a midplane, and a plurality of device ports. The switchless board includes a baseboard management controller (BMC), a network repeater configured to transport network signals, and a PCIe switch configured to transport PCIe signals. Each of the plurality of device ports is configured to connect a storage device to the midplane and carry the network signals and the PCIe signals over the midplane. The storage device is configurable to operate in one of multiple storage protocol modes based on a type of the chassis. The network repeater of the switchless board is swappable with an Ethernet switch to provide a switching compatibility to the chassis using the same midplane. The storage device can operate in single-port and dual-port configurations.

System architecture for supporting active pass-through board for multi-mode NMVE over fabrics devices

A chassis is disclosed. The chassis may include a processor, a switch, and at least one storage device in communication with a remote processor. The storage device may support an active power mode and a low power mode. A response to a Keep Alive (KA) message may be sent to the remote processor on behalf of the storage device when the storage device is in low power mode.

System and method for supporting chassis level keep alive in NVMe-oF based system

A data storage system includes: a plurality of data storage devices; a motherboard containing a baseboard management controller (BMC); and a network switch configured to route network traffic to the plurality of data storage devices. The BMC is configured to identify a group of data storage devices among the plurality of data storage devices based on device-specific information received from the plurality of data storage devices and send identifiers of the group of data storage devices to a querying party.

Method and apparatus for fine tuning and optimizing NVMe-of SSDs

A system includes a storage device; a storage device controller; a first interface configured to connect the storage device controller to the storage device; and a second interface configured to connect the storage device controller to a host device, wherein the storage device is configured to operate in a first mode or a second mode based on a status of a signal at the second interface based on instructions received from the host device.

SFF-TA-100X based multi-mode protocols solid state devices

A storage device is disclosed. The storage device may include storage to store data and a controller to manage reading data from and writing data to the storage. The controller may also include a receiver to receive a plurality of requests, information determination logic to determine information about the plurality of requests, storage for the information about a plurality of requests, and sharing logic to share the information with a management controller.

System and method for identifying SSDs with lowest tail latencies

According to some example embodiments, a method for providing security to a storage device includes receiving, by the storage device, a public key via a network; sending, by the storage device, the received public key and a proposed configuration corresponding to the storage device to a security manager that resides in a control plane of the network; determining, by the security manager, whether the public key received from the storage device matches a private key available to the security manager; downloading, by the security manager, the proposed configuration to the storage device; determining, by the security manager, if the proposed configuration is successfully downloaded to the storage device; operating the storage device according to the downloaded configuration; and granting, by the security manager, a request to lease the storage device operating in the downloaded configuration for a time interval.

System and method for providing security protection for FPGA based solid state drives

A rack-mountable data storage system includes: a chassis including one or more switchboards; a midplane interfacing with the one or more switchboards; and one or more data storage devices removably coupled to the midplane using a connector. At least one data storage device of the one or more data storage devices include a logic device to interface with the midplane. The logic device provides a device-specific interface of a corresponding data storage device with the midplane. The at least one data storage device is configured using the logic device according to a first protocol based on a signal on a pin of the connector, and the at least one data storage device is reconfigurable according to a second protocol based on a change of the signal on the pin of the connector using the logic device.

Modular system architecture for supporting multiple solid-state drives

A storage system comprises one or more storage devices, power supplies supplying power to the storage device, a processor that performs in response to determining that the total power consumption of the one or more storage devices is less than a first percentage threshold of a load of the active power supplies, deactivating one or more of the active power supplies until the total power consumption is equal to or greater than the first percentage threshold of a load of each of the active power supplies, and in response to determining that the total power consumption is equal to or greater than a second percentage threshold of a load of each of the active power supplies, activating one or more of the deactivated ones of the power supplies until the total power consumption is less than the second percentage threshold of the load of each of the active power supplies.

Method and apparatus for performing power analytics of a storage system

An adaptive interface storage device. In some embodiments, the adaptive interface storage device includes: a rear storage interface connector; an adaptable circuit connected to the rear storage interface connector; a first multiplexer, connected to the adaptable circuit; and a front storage interface connector, connected to the first multiplexer. The adaptive interface storage device may be configured to operate in a first state or in a second state. The adaptive interface storage device may be configured: in the first state, to present a device side storage interface according to a first storage protocol at the front storage interface connector, and in the second state, to present a device side storage interface according to a second storage protocol, different from the first storage protocol, at the front storage interface connector.

Adaptive interface storage device with multiple storage protocols including solid state drive storage devices

A system and method for providing erasure code protection across multiple storage devices. A data switch in a storage system connects a plurality of storage devices to a remote host. Each storage device is also connected to a controller, e.g., a baseboard management controller. During normal operation, read and write commands from the remote host are sent to respective storage devices through the data switch. When a write command is executed, the storage device executing the command sends a copy of the data to the controller, which generates and stores erasure codes, e.g., on a storage device that is dedicated to the storage of erasure codes, and invisible to the remote host. When a device fails or is removed, the controller reconfigures the data switch to redirect all traffic addressed to the failed or absent storage device to the controller, and the controller responds to host commands in its stead.

Control plane method and apparatus for providing erasure code protection across multiple storage devices

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