Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Implementing automatic switchover
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Application No.: US14920334Application Date: 2015-10-22
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Publication No.: US09836368B2Publication Date: 2017-12-05
- Inventor: Hrishikesh Keremane , Vijay Singh
- 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 ; G06F11/07

Abstract:
One or more techniques and/or computing devices are provided for automatic switchover implementation. For example, a first storage controller, of a first storage cluster, may have a disaster recovery relationship with a second storage controller of a second storage cluster. In the event the first storage controller fails, the second storage controller may automatically switchover operation from the first storage controller to the second storage controller for providing clients with failover access to data previously accessible to the clients through the first storage controller. The second storage controller may detect, cross-cluster, a failure of the first storage controller utilizing remote direct memory access (RDMA) read operations to access heartbeat information, heartbeat information stored within a disk mailbox, and/or service processor traps. In this way, the second storage controller may efficiently detect failure of the first storage controller to trigger automatic switchover for non-disruptive client access to data.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170116097A1 IMPLEMENTING AUTOMATIC SWITCHOVER Public/Granted day:2017-04-27
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