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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2002
Filed:
Apr. 05, 1999
Srinivas Pothapragada, San Jose, CA (US);
Lakshman Narayanaswamy, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Pannala Sudhakar Reddy, San Jose, CA (US);
Ravi Indurkar, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Tarun Kumar Tripathy, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Auspex Systems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and a method manages storage space in one or more data storage devices. This is done by receiving a request for storage space from a requester, the request specifying one or more criteria associated with the requested storage space; searching a data structure such as a table containing attributes associated with the data storage devices; selecting one of the data storage devices whose attributes best match the one or more criteria; returning an identification associated with a portion of the selected data storage devices to the requester; and creating a communication path between the requester and the selected data storage device.