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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 08, 2005
George Kong, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Anthony F. Aiello, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Radek Aster, Campbell, CA (US);
Randal Thelen, Mountain View, CA (US);
George Kong, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Anthony F. Aiello, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Radek Aster, Campbell, CA (US);
Randal Thelen, Mountain View, CA (US);
NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for distributing enclosure services information is provided. A plurality of storage systems that are operatively interconnected with one or more intermediate networking devices and/or disk shelves are modified to include a target device driver module that is adapted to receive and process target commands from other storage systems to enable the sharing and retrieval of SES information from a storage shelf's master storage system.