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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2010
Vijayan Rajan, Mountain View, CA (US);
Brian Pawlowski, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jeffrey S. Kimmel, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Gary Ross, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Vijayan Rajan, Mountain View, CA (US);
Brian Pawlowski, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jeffrey S. Kimmel, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Gary Ross, Pleasanton, CA (US);
NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A system integrates an intelligent storage switch with a flexible virtualization system to enable the intelligent storage switch to provide efficient service of file and block protocol data access requests for information stored on the system. A storage operating system executing on a storage system coupled to the switch implements the virtualization system to provide a unified view of storage to clients by logically organizing the information as named files, directories and logical unit numbers. The virtualization system may be embodied as a file system having a write allocator configured to provide a flexible block numbering policy to the storage switch that addresses volume management capabilities, such as storage virtualization.