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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2014
Emc Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Walter A. O'Brien, III, Westborough, MA (US);
David W. Harvey, Newton, MA (US);
Jeffrey A. Brown, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Henry Austin Spang, IV, Hopkinton, MA (US);
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A method for upgrading storage processors in a storage system includes a first storage processor performing IO requests on a first one or more logical units, and a second storage processor performing IO requests on a second one or more logical units of the plurality of logical units. The method includes causing the first storage processor to stop performing the IO requests on the first one or more logical units and the second storage processor to perform the IO requests on the first one or more logical units. The method includes causing the second storage processor to stop performing the IO requests on the first one or more logical units of the plurality of logical units and a third storage processor to perform the IO requests on the first one or more logical units.