公开(公告)号：WO2004063903A2

公开(公告)日：2004-07-29

申请号：PCT/US2004/000771

申请日：2004-01-13

Applicant: SIERRA LOGIC, INC.

Inventor： STEINMETZ, Joseph, H. ,  KOMPELLA, Murthy ,  WAKELEY, Matthew, P. ,  SCOTTEN, Jeffrey, Douglas

IPC: G06F

CPC classification number: H04L12/66 ,  G06F3/0607 ,  G06F3/0611 ,  G06F3/0617 ,  G06F3/064 ,  G06F3/0658 ,  G06F3/0661 ,  G06F3/0689 ,  G06F11/201 ,  G06F11/2089 ,  H04L45/60 ,  H04L67/1097

Abstract: An integrated circuit implementing a storage-shelf router used alone, or in combination with other storage-shelf routers, and in combination with path controller cards, to interconnect the disks within a storage shelf or disk array to a high-bandwidth communications medium, such as an FC arbitrated loop, through which data is exchanged between the individual disk drives of the storage shelf and a disk-array controller. A set of interconnected storage-shelf routers within a storage shelf can be accessed through a single port of an FC arbitrated loop or other high-bandwidth communications medium. Because, in one implementation, eight storage-shelf routers can be interconnected within a storage shelf to provide highly available interconnection of sixty-four disk drives within the storage shelf to an FC arbitrated loop via a single FC-arbitrated-loop port, a single FC arbitrated loop including a disk-array controller, may interconnect 8,000 individual disk drives to the disk-array controller within a disk array. The storage-shelf router can serve to translate FC-based communications protocols into one or more communication protocols appropriate to the internal links, providing for use of less expensive, non-FC-compatible disk drives within the storage shelf.

Abstract translation: 单独使用或与其他存储架子路由器结合使用并与路径控制器卡结合使用的存储架子路由器的集成电路将存储架或磁盘阵列中的磁盘互连到高带宽通信介质，例如 作为FC仲裁循环，通过其在存储架的各个磁盘驱动器和磁盘阵列控制器之间交换数据。 可以通过FC仲裁环路或其他高带宽通信介质的单一端口访问存储架内的一组互连的存储架子路由器。 因为在一个实现中，八个存储架路由器可以在存储架内互连，以通过单个FC仲裁环路端口提供存储架内的六十四个磁盘驱动器到FC仲裁环路的高可用性互连，单个 包括磁盘阵列控制器在内的FC仲裁循环可以将8,000个单独的磁盘驱动器连接到磁盘阵列中的磁盘阵列控制器。 存储架子路由器可以用于将基于FC的通信协议转换成适合于内部链路的一个或多个通信协议，从而提供在存储架内使用较便宜的非FC兼容磁盘驱动器。

公开(公告)号：EP1584022B1

公开(公告)日：2014-12-24

申请号：EP04701784.3

申请日：2004-01-13

Applicant: Sierra Logic, Inc.

Inventor： STEINMETZ, Joseph, H. ,  KOMPELLA, Murthy ,  WAKELEY, Matthew, P. ,  SCOTTEN, Jeffrey, Douglas

IPC: G06F3/06 ,  H04L12/66

CPC classification number: H04L12/66 ,  G06F3/0607 ,  G06F3/0611 ,  G06F3/0617 ,  G06F3/064 ,  G06F3/0658 ,  G06F3/0661 ,  G06F3/0689 ,  G06F11/201 ,  G06F11/2089 ,  H04L45/60 ,  H04L67/1097

公开(公告)号：EP1654658A1

公开(公告)日：2006-05-10

申请号：EP04777183.7

申请日：2004-06-23

Applicant: Sierra Logic, Inc.

Inventor： STEINMETZ, Joseph, H. ,  KOMPELLA, Murthy ,  WAKELEY, Matthew, P.

IPC: G06F12/00

CPC classification number: H04L29/06 ,  G06F3/0601 ,  G06F3/0607 ,  G06F3/0611 ,  G06F3/0617 ,  G06F3/064 ,  G06F3/0658 ,  G06F3/0661 ,  G06F3/0689 ,  G06F11/201 ,  G06F11/2089 ,  G06F2003/0697 ,  H04L12/4633 ,  H04L67/1097 ,  H04L69/08

Abstract: An integrated circuit implementing a storage-shelf router, used in combination with path controller cards and optionally with other storage-shelf routers, to interconnect SATA disks within a storage shelf or disk array to a high-bandwidth communications medium, such as an FC arbitrated loop. Various embodiments of the present invention provide a tunneling mechanism through the storage-shelf interface provided by one or more storage-shelf routers within a storage shelf to enable external processing entities to directly access various components within the storage shelf. In one embodiment of the present invention, a WRITE-BUFFER command and a READ­BUFFER command are added to the command interface supported by storage-shelf router. These commands are exchanged via the FCP protocol over the fiber channel in the same manner that SCSI commands are packaged within the FCP protocol. In certain cases, the information packaged within the WRITE-BUFFER and READ­ BUFFER commands is directly exchanged with internal disk drives. In other cases, the information is extracted and written to various data structures maintained within internal components of the storage shelf. The WRITE-BUFFER and READ-BUFFER commands essential provide a breach or tunnel in the high-availability storage-shelf virtual interface provided by one or more storage-shelf routers within a storage shelf, allowing an external processing entity to exchange information through the tunnel without intervention by, but facilitated and supported by, the one or more storage-shelf routers within the high-availability storage shelf.

公开(公告)号：EP1584022A2

公开(公告)日：2005-10-12

申请号：EP04701784.3

申请日：2004-01-13

Applicant: Sierra Logic, Inc.

Inventor： STEINMETZ, Joseph, H. ,  KOMPELLA, Murthy ,  WAKELEY, Matthew, P. ,  SCOTTEN, Jeffrey, Douglas

IPC: G06F3/00

CPC classification number: H04L12/66 ,  G06F3/0607 ,  G06F3/0611 ,  G06F3/0617 ,  G06F3/064 ,  G06F3/0658 ,  G06F3/0661 ,  G06F3/0689 ,  G06F11/201 ,  G06F11/2089 ,  H04L45/60 ,  H04L67/1097

Abstract: An integrated circuit implementing a storage-shelf router (2402, 2403, 2404, 2405) used alone, or in combination with other storage-shelf routers (2402, 2403, 2404, 2405), and in combination with path controller cards, to interconnect the disks within a storage shelf or disk array to a high-bandwidth communications medium, such as an FC arbitrated loop, through which data is exchanged between the individual disk drives of the storage shelf and a disk-array controller. A set of interconnected storage-shelf routers (2402, 2403, 2404, 2405) within a storage shelf can be accessed through a single port of an FC arbitrated loop or other high-bandwidth communications medium. Because, in one implementation, eight storage-shelf routers (2402, 2403, 2404, 2405) can be interconnected within a storage shelf to provide highly available interconnection of sixty-four disk drives within the storage shelf to an FC arbitrated loop via a single FC-arbitrated-loop port, a single FC arbitrated loop including a disk-array controller, may interconnect 8,000 individual disk drives to the disk-array controller within a disk array. The storage-shelf router can serve to translate FC-based communications protocols into one or more communication protocols appropriate to the internal links, providing for use of less expensive, non-FC-compatible disk drives within the storage shelf.