Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Interconnect path failover
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Application No.: US15164971Application Date: 2016-05-26
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Publication No.: US09715435B2Publication Date: 2017-07-25
- Inventor: Vaiapuri Ramasubramaniam , Rishabh Mittal , Amarnath Jolad , Hrishikesh Keremane , Harihara Kadayam
- Applicant: NetApp Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Assignee: NetApp Inc.
- Current Assignee: NetApp Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Agency: Cooper Legal Group, LLC
- Main IPC: G06F11/00
- IPC: G06F11/00 ; G06F11/20 ; G06F11/22 ; G06F11/30 ; G06F12/02

Abstract:
One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for interconnect failover between a primary storage controller and a secondary storage controller. The secondary storage controller may be configured as a backup or failover storage controller for the primary storage controller in the event the primary storage controller fails. Data and/or metadata describing the data (e.g., data and/or metadata stored within a write cache) may be mirrored from the primary storage controller to the secondary storage controller over one or more interconnect paths. Responsive to identifying a failover trigger for a failed interconnect path, the secondary storage controller is instructed to fence (e.g., block) I/O operations from the failed interconnect path. Streams of data and/or metadata that were affected by the failure may be instructed to transmit such data and/or metadata over one or more non-failed interconnect paths to the secondary storage controller during failover of the failed interconnect path.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160266989A1 INTERCONNECT PATH FAILOVER Public/Granted day:2016-09-15
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