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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 26, 2002
Windsor Wee Sun Hsu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jaishankar Moothedath Menon, San Jose, CA (US);
Honesty Cheng Young, Saratoga, CA (US);
Windsor Wee Sun Hsu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jaishankar Moothedath Menon, San Jose, CA (US);
Honesty Cheng Young, Saratoga, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An intelligent router routes a user request to a storage server that is capable of handling that request natively, without emulation. The request is routed automatically, without any instruction or interaction on the part of the user. The intelligent router includes a storage tank-like computing environment and a set of intelligent routers. The set of intelligent routers appears as a single entity to users by presenting a single network IP address. When the intelligent router receives a request, it examines the protocol type and routes the request to one of the appropriate storage tank clients. The intelligent router does not change the contents of the request message, and thus the storage tank system do not become aware of the existence of the intelligent router. Consequently, any return messages do not need to go through the intelligent router, unless desired.