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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2019
Filed:
May. 17, 2016
Netapp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sasidharan Krishnan, Fremont, CA (US);
Kalaivani Arumugham, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Kyle Sterling, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Susan Coatney, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Douglas Coatney, San Jose, CA (US);
NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and storage node computing device that identifies a subset of a plurality of sections of a shelf that is unowned based on a determined ownership status of a plurality of storage devices hosted by the shelf. Obtained section discriminant data is applied to one of a plurality of ordered storage node identifiers to identify one section of the subset of the sections. Ownership of one or more of the storage devices corresponding to the one section is obtained.