Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Multiple-apartment aware offlining of devices for disruptive and destructive operations
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Application No.: US15840810Application Date: 2017-12-13
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Publication No.: US10705732B1Publication Date: 2020-07-07
- Inventor: Andrew R. Bernat , Grigori Inozemtsev , Iris McLeary , Benjamin Scholbrock
- Applicant: PURE STORAGE, INC.
- Applicant Address: US CA Mountain View
- Assignee: Pure Storage, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Pure Storage, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Mountain View
- Agency: Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
- Main IPC: G06F3/06
- IPC: G06F3/06 ; G06F11/20

Abstract:
A method for taking a storage device offline, performed by a storage system, is provided. The method includes reserving the storage device and stopping direction to increment a heartbeat counter of the storage device. The method includes verifying the heartbeat counter of the storage device is static, and performing, responsive to the verifying, an operation on the storage device, with the storage device offline relative to the storage system I/O of user data.
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