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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2015

Filed:

Dec. 10, 2014
Applicant:

Infinidat Ltd., Herzliya, IL;

Inventors:

Haim Kopylovitz, Herzliya, IL;

Leo Corry, Ramat Gan, IL;

Assignee:

INFINIDAT LTD., Herzliya, IL;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/28 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0625 (2013.01); G06F 3/064 (2013.01); G06F 3/0653 (2013.01); G06F 3/0674 (2013.01); G06F 3/0689 (2013.01); G06F 12/0866 (2013.01); G06F 2212/262 (2013.01); Y02B 60/1225 (2013.01); Y02B 60/1246 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and method that include configuring local disk drives of a local storage system so that at any given point of time, a first part of the local disk drives operate in a low power state and a second part of the local disk drives operate in an active state; and in response to a read request of a data portion on a local disk drive of the local disk drives: determining whether the local disk drive currently operates in the low power state; reading the data portion from the local disk drive, if the local disk drive does not currently operate in the low power state; if the local disk drive currently operates in the low power state, enquiring if a remote mirror disk drive that stores a copy of the data portion currently operates in the low power state; wherein the remote mirror disk drive is comprised in a remote storage system that is coupled to the local storage system; and if the remote mirror disk drive does not currently operate in the low power state, requesting from the remote storage system to read the copy of the data portion from the remote minor disk drive.


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