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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 22, 2005
Jia-jen Yeh, Cupertino, CA (US);
Akram A. Abou-emara, Mountain View, CA (US);
Harinder Singh Bhasin, Danville, CA (US);
Sriram Chidambaram, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Shreyas P. Gandhi, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Nakul Pratap Saraiya, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Christopher Dean Youngworth, San Jose, CA (US);
Jia-Jen Yeh, Cupertino, CA (US);
Akram A. Abou-Emara, Mountain View, CA (US);
Harinder Singh Bhasin, Danville, CA (US);
Sriram Chidambaram, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Shreyas P. Gandhi, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Nakul Pratap Saraiya, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Christopher Dean Youngworth, San Jose, CA (US);
Habanero Holdings, Inc., Saratoga, CA (US);
Abstract
Storage gateway provisioning, configuration, and management functions provide mechanisms to specify and manage parameters and operations associated with storage gateways. The parameters may include any combination of VLAN topology, zoning behavior, LUN masking, bandwidth, and priority. The parameters may also include path information describing initiator to target associations, enabling load-balancing aggregations and multipathing redundancy. Parameters may be specified at relatively low-levels, describing specific HW elements, or may be specified at relatively high-levels, describing desired bandwidth and redundancy requirements, with SW determining low-level HW assignments. Configuration and management functions enable dynamic modification of storage gateway parameters (such as bandwidth between selected initiator and target pairs). Management functions also enable dynamic switchover from a primary path to a secondary path with respect to a storage device.