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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2024
Filed:
Feb. 05, 2018
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Hugh Williams, Cambridge, GB;
Antony Ian Taylor Rowstron, Cambridge, GB;
Richard Black, Cambridge, GB;
Austin Donnelly, Cambridge, GB;
Serguei Anatolievitch Legtchenko, Cambridge, GB;
Aaron Ogus, Redmond, WA (US);
Douglas Phillips, Cambridge, GB;
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC., Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A server system comprising processing devices, disks and a storage fabric, all arranged to operate according to a storage fabric protocol in order to communicate between the processing devices and the storage devices over the storage fabric, wherein the storage fabric is settable with a mapping determining which of the processing devices are allocated to use which of the storage devices in providing said services to the client systems. The system comprises a control function arranged to dynamically adapt the mapping in response to either: (i) failure or other downtime of one of the processing devices, storage devices, a component of the storage fabric or a connection in the storage fabric; or (ii) a current demand for the services from the client systems.