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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2009
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2006
Nakul Pratap Saraiya, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ganesh Sundaresan, San Jose, CA (US);
William E. Fisher, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Nakul Pratap Saraiya, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ganesh Sundaresan, San Jose, CA (US);
William E. Fisher, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Habanero Holdings, Inc., Saratoga, CA (US);
Abstract
A Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) transport for fabric backplane enterprise servers provides for local and remote communication of storage system information between storage sub-system elements of an ES system and other elements of an ES system via a storage interface. The transport includes encapsulation of information for communication via a reliable transport implemented in part across a cellifying switch fabric. The transport may optionally include communication via Ethernet frames over any of a local network or the Internet. Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) and Direct Data Placement (DDP) protocols are used to communicate the information (commands, responses, and data) between SCSI initiator and target end-points. A Fibre Channel Module (FCM) may be operated as a SCSI target providing a storage interface to any of a Processor Memory Module (PMM), a System Control Module (SCM), and an OffLoad Module (OLM) operated as a SCSI initiator.