- Patent Title: Synchronous replication for storage area network protocol storage
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Application No.: US14953048Application Date: 2015-11-27
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Publication No.: US09917896B2Publication Date: 2018-03-13
- Inventor: Paul Anthony Powell , Akhil Kaushik , Srikumar Natarajan , Ching-Yuk Paul Ngan
- Applicant: NetApp Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Assignee: NetApp Inc.
- Current Assignee: NetApp Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Agency: Cooper Legal Group, LLC
- Main IPC: G06F12/00
- IPC: G06F12/00 ; H04L29/08 ; G06F17/30 ; G06F11/20

Abstract:
One or more techniques and/or computing devices are provided for implementing synchronous replication. For example, a synchronous replication relationship may be established between a first storage controller hosting local storage and a second storage controller hosting remote storage (e.g., replication may be specified at a file, logical unit number (LUN), or any other level of granularity). Data operations and offloaded operations may be implemented in parallel upon the local storage and the remote storage. Error handling operations may be implemented upon the local storage and implement in parallel as a best effort on the remote storage, and a reconciliation may be performed to identify any data divergence from the best effort parallel implementation. Storage area network (SAN) operations may be implemented upon the local storage, and upon local completion may be remotely implemented upon the remote storage.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170155713A1 SYNCHRONOUS REPLICATION FOR STORAGE AREA NETWORK PROTOCOL STORAGE Public/Granted day:2017-06-01
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