Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Configuration of peered cluster storage environment organized as disaster recovery group
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Application No.: US14526037Application Date: 2014-10-28
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Publication No.: US09928148B2Publication Date: 2018-03-27
- Inventor: Harihara Kadayam , Hrishikesh Keremane , Vaiapuri Ramasubramaniam , Rishabh Mittal , Chaitanya Patel , Santhosh Unnikrishnan , Sameer Deshpande
- 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
- Priority: IN2375/DEL/2014 20140821
- Main IPC: G06F15/177
- IPC: G06F15/177 ; G06F11/20 ; H04L12/24 ; H04L29/08 ; H04L12/751 ; H04L12/703 ; H04L12/931

Abstract:
A technique efficiently configures a peered cluster storage environment. The configuration technique illustratively includes three phases: a discovery phase, a node setup phase and a cluster setup phase. The discovery phase may be employed to initiate discovery of nodes of a disaster recovery (DR) group through transmission of multicast advertisement packets by the nodes over interconnects, including a Fiber Channel (FC) fabric, to each other node of the group. In the node setup phase, each node of a cluster assigns its relationships to the nodes discovered and present in the FC fabric; illustratively, the assigned relationships include high availability (HA) partner, DR primary partner and DR auxiliary partner. In the cluster setup phase, the discovered nodes of the FC fabric are organized as the peered cluster storage environment (DR group) configured to service data in a highly reliable and available manner.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160057009A1 CONFIGURATION OF PEERED CLUSTER STORAGE ENVIRONMENT ORGANIZED AS DISASTER RECOVERY GROUP Public/Granted day:2016-02-25
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