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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2009
Filed:
Feb. 05, 2001
Applicants:
Gregory Hagan Moulton, Irvine, CA (US);
Stephen B. Whitehill, Tustin, CA (US);
Inventors:
Gregory Hagan Moulton, Irvine, CA (US);
Stephen B. Whitehill, Tustin, CA (US);
Assignee:
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 15/167 (2006.01); G06F 15/173 (2006.01); G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A data storage system comprising a plurality of storage nodes, each node existing at a physical location having one or more contexts. Interface mechanisms couple to each storage node to communicate storage access requests with the storage node. Data storage management processes select one or more of the storage nodes to serve a data storage request based at least in part upon the particular contexts of each of the storage nodes.