Invention Application
- Patent Title: INTERCONNECT PATH FAILOVER
-
Application No.: US15164971Application Date: 2016-05-26
-
Publication No.: US20160266989A1Publication Date: 2016-09-15
- Inventor: Vaiapuri Ramasubramaniam , Rishabh Mittal , Amarnath Jolad , Hrishikesh Keremane , Harihara Kadayam
- Applicant: NetApp Inc.
- Main IPC: G06F11/20
- IPC: G06F11/20 ; G06F11/22 ; G06F12/02 ; G06F11/30

Abstract:
One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for interconnect failover between a primary storage controller and a secondary storage controller. The secondary storage controller may be configured as a backup or failover storage controller for the primary storage controller in the event the primary storage controller fails. Data and/or metadata describing the data (e.g., data and/or metadata stored within a write cache) may be mirrored from the primary storage controller to the secondary storage controller over one or more interconnect paths. Responsive to identifying a failover trigger for a failed interconnect path, the secondary storage controller is instructed to fence (e.g., block) I/O operations from the failed interconnect path. Streams of data and/or metadata that were affected by the failure may be instructed to transmit such data and/or metadata over one or more non-failed interconnect paths to the secondary storage controller during failover of the failed interconnect path.
Public/Granted literature
- US09715435B2 Interconnect path failover Public/Granted day:2017-07-25
Information query