Storage area network having fabric-attached storage drives, SAN agent-executing client devices, and SAN manager that manages logical volume without handling data transfer between client computing device and storage drive that provides drive volume of the logical volume
US10884622B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Oct 17, 2016 |
| Grant date | Jan 5, 2021 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 17, 2036 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F11/2092
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A storage area network (SAN) includes fabric-attachable storage drives that are each directly connected to a fabric and that operate drive volumes. The SAN includes SAN software agents executed by client computing devices that are directly connected to the fabric. Each SAN software agent operates logical volumes realized by the drive volumes of the storage drives. The SAN includes a SAN manager directly connected to the fabric to manage the drive volumes of the SAN storage drives and to manage the logical volumes that the SAN software agents operate.
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