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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2016
Netapp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sasidharan Krishnan, Fremont, CA (US);
Kalaivani Arumugham, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A method, non-transitory computer readable medium and storage node computing device that reserves one of a plurality of data storage devices that is designated as a coordinator data storage device. A section of the storage cluster that is unowned is identified. Ownership of a subset of the data storage devices that is in the section of the storage cluster is obtained. A determination is made when the subset of the data storage devices includes the coordinator data storage device. The reservation of the coordinator data storage device is released, when the determining indicates that the subset of the data storage devices does not include the coordinator data storage device.