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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2014
Emc Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Jian Gao, Beijing, CN;
Peter Puhov, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Zhipeng Hu, Beijing, CN;
Wei He, Chengdu, CN;
Shay Harel, Marlborough, MA (US);
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A technique for managing system drive integrity in data storage systems is disclosed. A plurality of storage drive data structures configured to store data associated with a system drive is created, wherein each storage drive data structure includes a data structure initialization string, a unique storage system identifier, a plurality of unique system drive identifiers associated with respective system drives, and a board replacement flag. Respective data structures are stored on each of the plurality of corresponding system drives. The contents of one or more of the data structures stored on one or more of the plurality of systems drives are read via an instruction initiated by a data store system. A drive type for one or more system drives is determined based on the contents.