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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2014
Emc Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Philip Derbeko, Modiin, IL;
Marik Marshak, Newton, MA (US);
Alexandr Veprinsky, Brookline, MA (US);
Zvi Gabriel Benhanokh, Tel Aviv, IL;
Arieh Don, Newton, MA (US);
EMC CORPORATION, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
Example embodiments of the present invention relate to a method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for directing I/Os for a chunk of data to a data storage system on which the chunk of data is stored. The host method includes receiving an I/O for a chunk of data, identifying to which data storage system the I/O should be sent to access the chunk of data, and sending the I/O for the chunk of data to the identified data storage system. Other example embodiments of the present invention relate to a method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for handling received I/Os during a migration of the chunk of data. The data storage system method includes migrating the chunk of data, queuing an I/O for the chunk of data received from a host during the migration, and rejecting the queued I/O as a result of the migration.