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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2005
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2002
Clark Lubbers, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Susan Elkington, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Randy Hess, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Stephen J. Sicola, Palmer Lake, CO (US);
James Mccarty, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Anuja Korgaonkar, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Jason Leveille, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Clark Lubbers, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Susan Elkington, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Randy Hess, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Stephen J. Sicola, Palmer Lake, CO (US);
James McCarty, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Anuja Korgaonkar, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Jason Leveille, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A storage area network (SAN) controller and method for storing and replicating data between sites in a storage area network in which storage controllers at each site implement storage virtualization. A storage cell is implemented at each site comprising at least one storage controller and a pool of physical storage coupled to the controller. A copy set comprising a logical unit (LUN) of storage, referred to as a member, in each of the storage cells is defined. As operational data transactions are performed against one of the members of a copy set, they are replicated, immediately or after a delay, in each other member of the copy set. As changes are made to dependent attributes such as size of one member of the copy set, the change is replicated in each other member of the copy set automatically. Changes can be made in the independent attributes such as size of each member of the copy set independently of other members of the copy set.