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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 02, 2010
Garrett Mueller, San Jsoe, CA (US);
Roger Cox, Los Altos, CA (US);
Gyanendra Pradhan, Campbell, CA (US);
Garrett Mueller, San Jsoe, CA (US);
Roger Cox, Los Altos, CA (US);
Gyanendra Pradhan, Campbell, CA (US);
Network Appliance, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Non-disruptive server replacement for session-based clients. An embodiment of a method includes establishing a first session between a first storage server and a client, the first storage server comprising a data component coupled to a data storage, a network component, and a session data structure in the network component for the first session. Transferring an operation of the first storage server to a second storage server during the first session with the client, wherein the second storage server is a replacement storage server for the first storage server.