Invention Grant
US08347043B2 Storage management task distribution method and system on storage virtualizer
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存储虚拟机的存储管理任务分配方法和系统
- Patent Title: Storage management task distribution method and system on storage virtualizer
- Patent Title (中): 存储虚拟机的存储管理任务分配方法和系统
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Application No.: US12411290Application Date: 2009-03-25
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Publication No.: US08347043B2Publication Date: 2013-01-01
- Inventor: Atsushi Murase
- Applicant: Atsushi Murase
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Sughrue Mion, PLLC
- Main IPC: G06F12/00
- IPC: G06F12/00 ; G06F13/00 ; G06F13/28 ; G06F15/16

Abstract:
Systems and methods for dissolving the bottleneck issue of management task requested from management client to the storage virtualizer which consolidates externally attached storage arrays while providing a single management point of the entire system to the management client. Specifically, by utilizing the storage virtualizer to distribute received management tasks to respective external attached arrays, it can off load tasks, thus reducing the workload on the storage virtualizer itself. Because of the task distribution, the storage virtualizer consequently does not need to copy and hold detailed information of each storage volume in the respective attached storage arrays, thereby avoiding any inconsistent information between the arrays and the virtualizer when the configuration change has been done on the external array.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100250845A1 STORAGE MANAGEMENT TASK DISTRIBUTION METHOD AND SYSTEM ON STORAGE VIRTUALIZER Public/Granted day:2010-09-30
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