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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2007
Michael T. Howard, Andover, MA (US);
Jared M. Oberhaus, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Evan Bigall, New York, NY (US);
Lawrence Stein, San Carlos, CA (US);
Michael T. Howard, Andover, MA (US);
Jared M. Oberhaus, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Evan Bigall, New York, NY (US);
Lawrence Stein, San Carlos, CA (US);
Scalent Systems, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A system, method and computer program product for dynamically binding a server to a remote disk in a data center is provided. In a data center, servers and storage devices that manage multiple remote disks communicate over a switched fabric by using a standard protocol suite. The servers, storage devices and the switched fabric constitute a Storage Area Network (SAN). The devices present on the SAN are assigned a virtual identity, independent of their physical identity. The virtual identity of the servers facilitates the dynamic instantiation of the server images located on multiple remote disks on the servers.