Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Selecting storage clusters to use to access storage
- Patent Title (中): 选择用于访问存储的存储集群
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Application No.: US12107693Application Date: 2008-04-22
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Publication No.: US07730267B2Publication Date: 2010-06-01
- Inventor: Timothy C. Pepper
- Applicant: Timothy C. Pepper
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Konrad Raynes and Victor LLP
- Agent David W. Victor
- Main IPC: G06F12/00
- IPC: G06F12/00 ; G06F15/167

Abstract:
Provided are a method, system and program for selecting storage clusters to use to access storage. Input/Output (I/O) requests are transferred to a first storage cluster over a network to access storage. The storage may be additionally accessed via a second storage cluster over the network and both the first and second storage clusters are capable of accessing the storage. An unavailability of a first storage cluster is detected when the second storage cluster is available. A request is transmitted to hosts over the network to use the second storage cluster to access the storage. Hosts receiving the transmitted request send I/O requests to the storage via the second storage cluster if the second storage cluster is available.
Public/Granted literature
- US20080215827A1 SELECTING STORAGE CLUSTERS TO USE TO ACCESS STORAGE Public/Granted day:2008-09-04
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