公开(公告)号：WO2002065249A3

公开(公告)日：2002-08-22

申请号：PCT/US2002/004472

申请日：2002-02-13

Applicant: CONFLUENCE NETWORKS, INC. ,  GAJJAR, Kumar ,  COLLINS, Jim ,  PATEL, Dipam ,  MEYER, Richard ,  PRASAD, Chandra

Inventor： GAJJAR, Kumar ,  COLLINS, Jim ,  PATEL, Dipam ,  MEYER, Richard ,  PRASAD, Chandra

IPC: G06F15/16

Abstract: In a storage server on a storage area network, a media unit manager manages disk space in a manner transparent to the host computers (106). The media manager (120) uses media units corresponding to the physical storage devices (104) on the storage area network to build higher level media units. The higher level media units can have attributes of being sliced concatenated, mirrored, striped, etc. Thus the host computers (106) need not be aware of the specific physical storage devices themselves, reducing the management and reconfiguration burden on the host computers (106) when storage devices (104) are added to or removed from the storage area network.

公开(公告)号：WO2002065309A1

公开(公告)日：2002-08-22

申请号：PCT/US2002/004510

申请日：2002-02-13

Applicant: CONFLUENCE NETWORKS, INC.

Inventor： GAJJAR, Kumar ,  COLLINS, Jim ,  MEYER, Richard ,  PRASAD, Chandra ,  PATEL, Dipam

IPC: G06F13/00

CPC classification number: G06F12/1458 ,  G06F3/0605 ,  G06F3/0607 ,  G06F3/0614 ,  G06F3/0629 ,  G06F3/0632 ,  G06F3/0635 ,  G06F3/0665 ,  G06F3/067 ,  G06F11/0724 ,  G06F11/0727 ,  G06F11/0766 ,  G06F11/0793 ,  G06F11/1482 ,  G06F11/201 ,  G06F11/2025 ,  G06F11/2089 ,  G06F11/2092 ,  G06F11/2094 ,  G06F11/2097 ,  G06F2201/815 ,  H04L49/357 ,  H04L67/1097

Abstract: A storage provisioning policy is created by specifying storage heuristics for storage attributes using storage heuristic metadata. Storage attributes characterize a storage device and storage heuristic metadata describe how to specify a storage heuristic (S602). Using the storage heuristic metadata, storage heuristics are defined to express a rule or constraint as a function of a storage attribute (S604). In addition, the storage provisioning policy may also specify mapping rules (S606) for exporting the storage to a consumer of the storage, such as the server or server cluster.

Abstract translation: 通过使用存储启发式元数据为存储属性指定存储启发式方法来创建存储配置策略。 存储属性表征存储设备，并且存储启发式元数据描述如何指定存储启发式（S602）。 使用存储启发式元数据，存储启发式被定义为表示作为存储属性的函数的规则或约束（S604）。 此外，存储提供策略还可以指定用于将存储导出到诸如服务器或服务器集群的存储的消费者的映射规则（S606）。

公开(公告)号：EP1370950A1

公开(公告)日：2003-12-17

申请号：EP02718983.6

申请日：2002-02-13

Applicant: Confluence Networks Inc.

Inventor： GAJJAR, Kumar ,  COLLINS, Jim ,  MEYER, Richard ,  PRASAD, Chandra ,  PATEL, Dipam

IPC: G06F13/00 ,  G06F17/60 ,  G06F17/30

CPC classification number: G06F12/1458 ,  G06F3/0605 ,  G06F3/0607 ,  G06F3/0614 ,  G06F3/0629 ,  G06F3/0632 ,  G06F3/0635 ,  G06F3/0665 ,  G06F3/067 ,  G06F11/0724 ,  G06F11/0727 ,  G06F11/0766 ,  G06F11/0793 ,  G06F11/1482 ,  G06F11/201 ,  G06F11/2025 ,  G06F11/2089 ,  G06F11/2092 ,  G06F11/2094 ,  G06F11/2097 ,  G06F2201/815 ,  H04L49/357 ,  H04L67/1097

Abstract: In a storage server on a storage area network, a media unit manager manages disk space in a manner transparent to the host computers. The media unit manager uses media units corresponding to the physical storage devices on the storage area network to build higher-level media units. The higher level media units can have the attributes of being sliced, concatenated, mirrored, striped, etc. Thus, the host computers need not be aware of the specific physical storage devices themselves, reducing the management and reconfiguration burden on the host computers when storage devices are added to or removed from the storage area network.