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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2013
Seagate Technology Llc, Cupertino, CA (US);
James Dykes, Longmont, CO (US);
Edward Jen-Yu Chen, Boulder, CO (US);
Peter Viscarola, Mont Vernon, NH (US);
Scott Noone, Amherst, NH (US);
SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC, Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods are provided herein that can facilitate the managed reliability of data storage, including management of device remanufacturing and masking from an operating system a failure or predicted failure of a device running on a computer or a networked cluster of computers having access to the device. The systems and methods may facilitate removal of a device by coordinating among computers or controllers in a network cluster the logical removal of a device. At a later time, a coordinated logical re-introduction of the device to the systems or computers from which the device was logically removed can be performed. This can be accomplished via a virtualization system that may include a device function driver (DFD), a device virtualization bus driver (DVBD), and a device management service (DMS).