发明授权
- 专利标题: System and method for inband management of a virtual disk
- 专利标题(中): 用于虚拟磁盘的带内管理的系统和方法
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申请号: US11406989申请日: 2006-04-19
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公开(公告)号: US07418569B1公开(公告)日: 2008-08-26
- 发明人: Herman Lee , Rebecca Beaman , Arthur F. Lent
- 申请人: Herman Lee , Rebecca Beaman , Arthur F. Lent
- 申请人地址: US CA Sunnyvale
- 专利权人: Network Appliance, Inc.
- 当前专利权人: Network Appliance, Inc.
- 当前专利权人地址: US CA Sunnyvale
- 代理机构: Cesari and McKenna, LLP
- 主分类号: G06F12/00
- IPC分类号: G06F12/00
摘要:
The present invention provides a system and method for inband management of a virtual disk. A novel volume information command, which is a vendor-specific SCSI command, is sent by a client to a storage appliance, in response, generates a data structure containing various path and networking data associated with a vdisk. This data structure is then returned to the requesting client via a SCSI connection. A client may then utilize the returned information for generating snapshots or other data integrity/backup features offered by the storage appliance.
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