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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2013
Emc Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Vy Nguyen, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Yiqiang Ding, San Jose, CA (US);
Venkata Ratnam Tatavarty, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Zhongjie Wu, Beijing, CN;
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A storage system for simulation virtual shelves with physical storage shelves is disclosed. The storage system contains a management daemon configured to perform tasks relating to one or more virtual shelves in response to a request for a simulation test, where each physical storage shelf having one or more physical disks. It contains a simulation daemon providing a virtual shelf configuration information to the management daemon when the management daemon interacts with the one or more virtual shelves in response to the request. The storage system also contains a disk driver configured to interface the physical storage shelves with the management daemon. It further contains a simulation driver configured to, in response to the request for a simulation test, process instructions to and from the disk driver and the simulation daemon to simulate access to the one or more virtual shelves, without having to utilize multiple physical storage shelves.