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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 03, 2013
Applicant:
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
HITACHI, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/10 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 13/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0613 (2013.01); G06F 3/0635 (2013.01); G06F 3/0689 (2013.01); G06F 13/4022 (2013.01);
Abstract
In order to eliminate I/O performance bottleneck of a path in a disk array system, one expander is composed of two internal expanders connected to each other, and when the path falls in a bottleneck, connection of two internal expanders in a designated expander is cut off, and the cut-off internal expanders are connected to a new path to change access route to the disk drive. A device management table managing individual disk drives and a routing table managing access routes of respective paths are updated according to the switching of the access route.