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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 08, 2005
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);
George Kong, Santa Clara, CA (US);
NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a novel coordinated shared storage architecture that permits the amortization of cost of the spares over any number of the storage systems and enables improvements to a number of storage system operations. The coordinated shared storage architecture comprises a plurality of storage systems disk shelves via a plurality of intermediate network devices, such as hubs. Each storage system includes a storage operating system having a target device driver module. The target device driver module permits the storage system to function as a SCSI target and thereby receive and process commands directed to it from other storage systems.