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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 15, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2010
Ashok Ramakrishnan, Morrisville, NC (US);
Mohamed Elayouty, Cary, NC (US);
Phillip Leef, Brookline, MA (US);
Russell R. Laporte, Webster, MA (US);
Ping He, Cary, NC (US);
Ashok Ramakrishnan, Morrisville, NC (US);
Mohamed Elayouty, Cary, NC (US);
Phillip Leef, Brookline, MA (US);
Russell R. Laporte, Webster, MA (US);
Ping He, Cary, NC (US);
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A method for adding file based storage hardware to a block based storage system includes detecting, by the file based storage hardware, an electrical coupling between the file based storage hardware and the block based storage system, the block based storage system having a set of logical units (LUs) predefined as file based storage hardware specific LUs. The method includes forwarding, by the file based storage hardware, an initiator record to the block based storage system, the initiator record configured to control access by the file based storage hardware to data stored by the block based storage system and the initiator record having a file based storage hardware specific identifier. The method includes, following the block based storage system associating the initiator record having the file based storage hardware specific identifier with the predefined file based storage hardware specific LUs, establishing a communication path with the block based storage system.