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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2010
Donald R. Frame, Apex, NC (US);
Jeffrey R. Hobbet, Holly Springs, NC (US);
Kenneth Dean Timmons, Raleigh, NC (US);
Michael Scott Mettler, Durham, NC (US);
Donald R. Frame, Apex, NC (US);
Jeffrey R. Hobbet, Holly Springs, NC (US);
Kenneth Dean Timmons, Raleigh, NC (US);
Michael Scott Mettler, Durham, NC (US);
Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. Ltd., Tech Park, SG;
Abstract
A method and apparatus are disclosed for concatenating a first RAID and a second RAID. The apparatus includes a concatenation module and a direction module. The concatenation module concatenates a first Redundant Array of Independent Disks ('RAID') with a second RAID into a top-level RAID. The first RAID and the second RAID may have disparate operational characteristics. The direction module directs storage operations to one of the first RAID and the second RAID based on a direction policy.