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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2008
Filed:
Jan. 18, 2006
Thai Nguyen, Thornton, CO (US);
Michael L. Leonhardt, Longmont, CO (US);
Richard John Defouw, Boulder, CO (US);
Thai Nguyen, Thornton, CO (US);
Michael L. Leonhardt, Longmont, CO (US);
Richard John Defouw, Boulder, CO (US);
Storage Technology Corporation, Louisvile, CO (US);
Abstract
For use in a storage area network (SAN), a virtualization layer including at least one virtual engine having a respective local cache and a secondary cache layer, wherein the secondary cache layer includes the local caches coupled together, the local caches individually including a first cache layer, and at least one of a data transfer command and data corresponding to the transfer command are multicast to the secondary cache layer through an interconnection bus, the interconnection bus coupling the at least one virtual engine and at least one physical storage device.