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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 05, 2012
Israel Gold, Haifa, IL;
Yechiel Yochai, Moshav Aviel, IL;
Julian Satran, Atlit, IL;
Infinidat Ltd., Hertzelia, IL;
Abstract
A method and a storage system for managing logical objects, wherein the storage system includes a plurality of control servers and the method includes: (i) defining a plurality of object pools and associating each logical object, hosted in the storage system, with one of the plurality of object pools; (ii) configuring each control server to have a primary responsibility over at least two of the object pools, such that each object pool is controlled by one primary control server, configured to handle requests directed to logical objects associated with the object pool; and (iii) in response to a failure of one of the plurality of control servers, configuring each operational server of the plurality of control servers to take over primary responsibility for at least one object pool, originally defined under the primary responsibility of the failed control server.