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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 23, 2015
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood City, CA (US);
David G. Hostetter, Louisville, CO (US);
Steven Sanders, Golden, CO (US);
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood City, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods that substantially or fully remove a commanding server from a data path (e.g., as part of a data migration, disaster recovery, and/or the like) to improve data movement performance and make additional bandwidth available for other system processes and the like. Broadly, a network interface card (e.g., host bus adapter (HBA)) of a tape drive may be configured in both a target mode to allow the tape drive to be a recipient of control commands from a server to request and/or otherwise obtain data from one or more source tape drives, and in an initiator mode to allow the tape drive to send commands to the one or more tape drives specified in the commands received from the server to request/read data from and/or write data to such one or more tape drives.