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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 28, 2007
Rahim Ibrahim, Mountain View, CA (US);
Glenn Yu, San Jose, CA (US);
Nghiep Tran, San Jose, CA (US);
Tuan Nguyen, San Jose, CA (US);
Chan NG, San Jose, CA (US);
Kumar Gajjar, San Jose, CA (US);
Richard Meyer, San Francisco, CA (US);
Rahim Ibrahim, Mountain View, CA (US);
Glenn Yu, San Jose, CA (US);
Nghiep Tran, San Jose, CA (US);
Tuan Nguyen, San Jose, CA (US);
Chan Ng, San Jose, CA (US);
Kumar Gajjar, San Jose, CA (US);
Richard Meyer, San Francisco, CA (US);
NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A storage virtualization controller for transferring data between a host and a storage device at a wire-speed data transfer rate. A downstream processing element adapted for connection to the storage device is configurable coupled to an upstream processing element adapted for connection to the host. A central processing element coupled to the upstream processing element grants permission to the upstream processing element to transfer the data at the wire-speed rate without further involvement by the central processing element.