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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 05, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2007
David French, Grafton, MA (US);
Douglas Sullivan, Hopkinton, MA (US);
William Buckley, Brighton, MA (US);
Alex Sanville, Boxborough, MA (US);
Phillip J. Manning, East Geenwich, RI (US);
David French, Grafton, MA (US);
Douglas Sullivan, Hopkinton, MA (US);
William Buckley, Brighton, MA (US);
Alex Sanville, Boxborough, MA (US);
Phillip J. Manning, East Geenwich, RI (US);
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A computerized system includes two storage processors having respective local write caches configured to mirror each other. When a first storage processor becomes unavailable and mirroring of the local write caches is prevented, the computerized system continues to attend to write operations from an external host in a write-back manner by caching write data from the write operations in the local write cache of the second storage processor. In response to a failure of the second storage processor, the computerized system preserves the write data within the local write cache of the second storage processor. Then, upon recovery of the second storage processor from the failure, the computerized system continues to attend to further write operations from the external host in the write-back manner by caching additional write data in the local write cache of the second storage processor while the first storage processor remains unavailable.