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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2004
Swaminathan Ramany, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Manpreet Singh, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Darren Sawyer, San Carlos, CA (US);
Swaminathan Ramany, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Manpreet Singh, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Darren Sawyer, San Carlos, CA (US);
NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and an apparatus to manage data in a networked storage server have been disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes providing a single logical layer between a number of logical subsystems in a storage server and a number of data management agents in the storage server, wherein the data management agents are operable to service requests from a number of client machines following different data management protocols, and exporting a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) from the single logical layer to interface with the data management agents.