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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 25, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 08, 2008
Samar Sharma, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Dinesh Dutt, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sanjaya Kumar, Fremont, CA (US);
Umesh Mahajan, Cupertino, CA (US);
Thomas J. Edsall, Cupertino, CA (US);
Samar Sharma, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Dinesh Dutt, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sanjaya Kumar, Fremont, CA (US);
Umesh Mahajan, Cupertino, CA (US);
Thomas J. Edsall, Cupertino, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A technique is provided for implementing online restriping of a volume in a storage area network. A first instance of the volume is instantiated at a first port of the fibre channel fabric for enabling I/O operations to be performed at the volume. While restriping operations are being performed at the volume, the first port is able to concurrently perform I/O operations at the volume.