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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 27, 2011
Applicants:
Balaji Natrajan, Spring, TX (US);
Michael G Myrah, Cypress, TX (US);
Inventors:
Balaji Natrajan, Spring, TX (US);
Michael G Myrah, Cypress, TX (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP, Houston, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/54 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0605 (2013.01); G06F 3/0664 (2013.01); G06F 3/0683 (2013.01);
Abstract
A serial attached small computer system interface (SAS) expander for providing a virtual tape drive. The expander includes a virtual tape manager to generate a virtual tape virtual PHY capable of being part of a zone group wherein the virtual tape virtual PHY comprises drive bays which support disk drives for emulation of tape drives.