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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 7000069 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2006

Filed:

Apr. 05, 1999

Apparatus and method for providing very large virtual storage volumes using redundant arrays of disks

Applicants:

Theodore E. Bruning, Iii, Colorado Springs, CO (US);

Randal S. Marks, Colorado Springs, CO (US);

Julia A. Hodges, Colorado Springs, CO (US);

Gerald L. Golden, Colorado Springs, CO (US);

Ryan J. Johnson, Colorado Springs, CO (US);

Bert Martens, Monument, CO (US);

Karen E. Workman, Elbert, CO (US);

Susan G. Elkington, Colorado Springs, CO (US);

Richard F. Lary, Colorado Springs, CO (US);

Jesse Yandell, Colorado Springs, CO (US);

Stephen Sicola, Monument, CO (US);

Roger Oakey, Colorado Springs, CO (US);

Inventors:

Theodore E. Bruning, III, Colorado Springs, CO (US);

Randal S. Marks, Colorado Springs, CO (US);

Julia A. Hodges, Colorado Springs, CO (US);

Gerald L. Golden, Colorado Springs, CO (US);

Ryan J. Johnson, Colorado Springs, CO (US);

Bert Martens, Monument, CO (US);

Karen E. Workman, Elbert, CO (US);

Susan G. Elkington, Colorado Springs, CO (US);

Richard F. Lary, Colorado Springs, CO (US);

Jesse Yandell, Colorado Springs, CO (US);

Stephen Sicola, Monument, CO (US);

Roger Oakey, Colorado Springs, CO (US);

Assignee:

Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:

Kimberly McLean-Mayo

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A very large virtual storage volume formed by distributing disks in multiple, multi-disk RAID (redundant array of independent disks) sets across busses of a back-end controller. The multiple RAID sets are striped by a front-end controller connected to the back-end controller and presented to a host computer as a very large virtual storage volume.

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