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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 2005
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2002
Kadir Ozdemir, San Jose, CA (US);
Ismail Dalgic, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Michael Syben, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Frederic Pont, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jeffrey Henry Raubitschek, Fremont, CA (US);
Omer Tunali, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Kadir Ozdemir, San Jose, CA (US);
Ismail Dalgic, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Michael Syben, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Frederic Pont, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jeffrey Henry Raubitschek, Fremont, CA (US);
Omer Tunali, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Intransa, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Apparatus and methods for distributing iSCSI and SCSI targets. The initiator may assist in the distribution and order the SCSI commands. A subset of target storage processors may act as proxies. Target storage processors forward requests to a selected target storage processor which decides whether any and which of the other target storage processors is to process a forwarded request. The target storage processors may act as peers. A target storage processor communicates each received request to all of the other storage processors. Each of the target storage processors determines whether a request it received is to execute. A target storage processors may arrange themselves into layers to divide the SCSI and iSCSI protocol work. A distributed system associates each of multiple egress target storage processors with a respective ingress target storage processor and associates a set of blocks of storage with each of the egress target storage processors.