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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 06, 2015
Drivescale, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
James G. Hanko, Redwood City, CA (US);
Christopher Unkel, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Drivescale, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods for balancing storage data traffic in a system in which at least one computing device (server) coupled to a converged network accesses at least one storage device coupled (by at least one adapter) to the network, systems configured to perform such methods, and devices configured to implement such methods or for use in such systems. Typically, the system includes servers and adapters, and server agents implemented on the servers and adapter agents implemented on the adapters are configured to detect and respond to imbalances in storage and data traffic in the network, and to redirect the storage data traffic to reduce the imbalances and, thereby to improve the overall network performance (for both data communications and storage traffic). Typically, each agent operates autonomously (except in that an adapter agent may respond to a request or notification from a server agent), and no central computer or manager directs operation of the agents.