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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2009
Filed:
May. 03, 2004
Ankur A. Kemkar, San Jose, CA (US);
Rajesh Bhalerao, San Jose, CA (US);
John A. Colgrove, Los Altos, CA (US);
Ronald S. Karr, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Oleg Kiselev, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ankur A. Kemkar, San Jose, CA (US);
Rajesh Bhalerao, San Jose, CA (US);
John A. Colgrove, Los Altos, CA (US);
Ronald S. Karr, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Oleg Kiselev, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Symantec Operating Corporation, Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A system, method, and medium provide communication between a volume server and a volume owner in a distributed storage management system. A volume server may manage configuration information for a particular volume of storage. A volume owner may manage input/output (I/O) for the volume. The volume server may lease the configuration information to the volume owner using a communications protocol. The communications protocol comprises a plurality of operations for management of the lease. The volume owner may use the configuration information to manage the I/O for the volume.