Emc IP Holding Company LLC

Emc Corporation

Steven Chen

Ziye Yang

Yang Liu

Lintao Wan

Chenhui Fan

Xiaohong Qin

Smitha Mave

A data storage system includes: one or more storage nodes configured to attach to a computer network to provide network-attached storage for the computer network; a first application programming interface providing data storage functionality at a file level in the one or more network-attached storage nodes for a first set of application programs operating in the computer network; and a second application programming interface providing data storage functionality at a level other than the file level in the one or more network-attached storage nodes for a second set of application programs operating in the computer network, wherein the second application programming interface comprises one or more native representational state transfer-based application programming interfaces.

Data storage system with native representational state transfer-based application programming interface

A first portion of a bootstrapping process is performed for a data storage system. The first portion of the bootstrapping process comprises a hypervisor scanning for and initializing a plurality of physical storage devices of the data storage system, and storing boot information obtained during the scanning and initializing steps. A second portion of a bootstrapping process is performed for the data storage system. The second portion of the bootstrapping process comprises providing at least a portion of the stored boot information to at least one virtual machine implementing an application program that utilizes the plurality of physical storage devices, and the virtual machine initializing one or more virtual resources using the stored boot information provided by the hypervisor. The scanning for the plurality of physical storage devices of the data storage system may be performed in a parallel manner.

Hypervisor utilization to reduce bootstrap time for data storage system

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Steven Chen