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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2007
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2004
Anthony F. Aiello, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Anthony F. Aiello, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Network Appliance, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus to offload operations has been disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes configuring a number of storage devices in a networked storage system according to a redundancy scheme using a storage server in the networked storage system, providing information on a configuration of the storage devices from the storage server to an offload engine coupled to the storage server, and the storage server directing the offload engine to perform operations on the storage devices, wherein the storage devices are presented transparently to the storage server via the offload engine. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
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