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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 13, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2019
Infortrend Technology, Inc., New Taipei, TW;
Ching-Hao Chou, New Taipei, TW;
Michael Gordon Schnapp, New Taipei, TW;
Ching-Hai Hung, New Taipei, TW;
Infortrend Technology, Inc., New Taipei, TW;
Abstract
A data storage system architecture for accessing data, having a plurality of data storage subsystems coupling to a host for receiving an I/O request from the host, is provided. Each of the plurality of the data storage subsystems has: a redundant array of independent disks layer (RAID layer) for generating a plurality of media extents; a virtualization module for generating one or more virtual volumes (VVs); an on-board load balance (OBLB) module for offering a data access interface between the host and the data storage system architecture to parse the I/O request into at least one sub-I/O request; and a media extent server (ME server) module to receive the at least one sub-I/O request and to determine the validity of the at least one sub-I/O request. Accordingly, the host is able to issue I/O requests to any one of the data storage subsystems.