发明申请
US20120030456A1 Booting Devices Using Virtual Storage Arrays Over Wide-Area Networks
有权
引导设备在广域网上使用虚拟存储阵列
- 专利标题: Booting Devices Using Virtual Storage Arrays Over Wide-Area Networks
- 专利标题(中): 引导设备在广域网上使用虚拟存储阵列
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申请号: US13166321申请日: 2011-06-22
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公开(公告)号: US20120030456A1公开(公告)日: 2012-02-02
- 发明人: David Tze-Si Wu , Steven McCanne , Michael J. Demmer , Nitin Gupta
- 申请人: David Tze-Si Wu , Steven McCanne , Michael J. Demmer , Nitin Gupta
- 申请人地址: US CA San Francisco
- 专利权人: RIVERBED TECHNOLOGY, INC.
- 当前专利权人: RIVERBED TECHNOLOGY, INC.
- 当前专利权人地址: US CA San Francisco
- 主分类号: G06F15/177
- IPC分类号: G06F15/177
摘要:
Virtual storage arrays consolidate data storage at a data center for physical and virtual computer systems at one or more branch network locations. Standalone and virtualized computer systems at a branch network location load, execute, and store their operating systems, applications, and data using virtual storage arrays and do not require any built-in or external non-volatile data storage devices such as hard disk drives or solid-state drives at the branch network location. The virtual disks of the virtual storage array are mapped to physical data storage at the data center and accessed via a WAN using storage block-based protocols. A storage block cache at the branch network location includes storage blocks prefetched based on knowledge about the computer systems at the branch network location and the behavior of their operating systems and applications.