- Patent Title: 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
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Application No.: US15295596Application Date: 2016-10-17
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Publication No.: US10884622B2Publication Date: 2021-01-05
- Inventor: Michael Neil Condict , David W. Cosby , Jonathan Randall Hinkle
- Applicant: Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
- Applicant Address: SG New Tech Park
- Assignee: Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
- Current Assignee: Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: SG New Tech Park
- Agency: Kunzler Bean & Adamson
- Agent Bruce R. Needham
- Main IPC: G06F3/06
- IPC: G06F3/06 ; G06F11/20
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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