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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 2009
Filed:
Jul. 26, 2006
Yoshihiro Fujie, Fujisawa, JP;
Shah Mohammad Rezaul Islam, Tucson, AZ (US);
Gregg Steven Lucas, Tucson, AZ (US);
Koji Nakase, Kanagawa, JP;
Ronald Dean Parrish, Tucson, AZ (US);
Tohru Sumiyoshi, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshihiro Fujie, Fujisawa, JP;
Shah Mohammad Rezaul Islam, Tucson, AZ (US);
Gregg Steven Lucas, Tucson, AZ (US);
Koji Nakase, Kanagawa, JP;
Ronald Dean Parrish, Tucson, AZ (US);
Tohru Sumiyoshi, Tokyo, JP;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for integrating a blade RAID controller and storage. A storage blade enclosure communicates with a blade chassis. The storage blade enclosure is mounted within the blade chassis. A RAID controller disposed in the storage blade enclosure receives a command through the storage blade enclosure. In one embodiment, the command is communicated through the blade chassis from a processor blade mounted in the blade chassis. The RAID controller redundantly stores data to or retrieves data from a storage module disposed in the storage blade enclosure in response to the command using a RAID redundancy methodology.