公开(公告)号：US09940196B2

公开(公告)日：2018-04-10

申请号：US15135265

申请日：2016-04-21

Applicant: NETAPP, INC.

Inventor： Richard Christopher Fore ,  Atul Goel ,  Stephen H. Strange ,  Kyle Sterling

IPC: G06F11/00 ,  G06F11/10 ,  G06F3/06

CPC classification number: G06F11/1088

Abstract: Methods and systems for a storage environment are provided. For example, one method includes receiving a request from a storage server at an offload engine for reconstructing data lost due to a failed storage device of a parity group having a plurality of storage devices; retrieving data and parity by the offload engine from the parity group storage devices that are operational; determining by the offload engine XOR of the retrieved data and parity; presenting XOR of data and parity by the offload engine to the storage server with context information associated with the retrieved data; and reconstructing lost data by the storage server using the XOR of data and parity and the context information provided by the offload engine.

公开(公告)号：US20170308435A1

公开(公告)日：2017-10-26

申请号：US15135265

申请日：2016-04-21

Applicant: NETAPP, INC.

Inventor： Richard Christopher Fore ,  Atul Goel ,  Stephen H. Strange ,  Kyle Sterling

IPC: G06F11/10 ,  G06F3/06

CPC classification number: G06F11/1088

Abstract: Methods and systems for a storage environment are provided. For example, one method includes receiving a request from a storage server at an offload engine for reconstructing data lost due to a failed storage device of a parity group having a plurality of storage devices; retrieving data and parity by the offload engine from the parity group storage devices that are operational; determining by the offload engine XOR of the retrieved data and parity; presenting XOR of data and parity by the offload engine to the storage server with context information associated with the retrieved data; and reconstructing lost data by the storage server using the XOR of data and parity and the context information provided by the offload engine.