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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2014
Netapp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
John Hildebrand, Hillsborough, NC (US);
Geoffrey Stewart Brown, Raleigh, NC (US);
Nathan Baker, Morrisville, NC (US);
John Meneghini, Billerica, MA (US);
Frederick Knight, Cary, NC (US);
Santosh Rao, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques to managing non-disruptive SAN availability in a partitioned cluster comprising one or more components configured to determine whether to separate a cluster into two or more partitions, notify one or more responsive cluster nodes to separate the cluster into a first partition and a second partition, update one or more access states, notify the host that access states of one or more network paths has been updated, and provide the one or more access states. Other embodiments are described and claimed.