SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FAULT-TOLERANT WITNESS SLEDS

    公开(公告)号:US20240362132A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-31

    申请号:US18307893

    申请日:2023-04-27

    IPC分类号: G06F11/20

    CPC分类号: G06F11/2094 G06F2201/85

    摘要: Systems and methods provide witness sled hardware installed in a chassis and supported during network failures using management resources of the chassis. A chassis may include data storage devices and Information Handling Systems (IHSs), each configured to store data redundantly to the data storage devices, such as part of a vSAN (Virtual Storage Area Network). The witness sled is configured to provide witness functions, such as to arbitrate discrepancies in the redundantly stored data. The chassis also includes a chassis management controller (CMC) configured to initiate a connection with the witness sled via a management signaling pathway in response to a notification indicating a network fault in a high-speed connection used by the IHSs in communicating with the witness sled. The CMC receives witness transactions from theses IHSs and utilizes the connection initiated via the management signaling pathway to submit the transactions for processing by the witness sled.

    Data storage system with rebuild functionality

    公开(公告)号:US12130717B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-29

    申请号:US18514317

    申请日:2023-11-20

    IPC分类号: G06F11/20 G06F11/10

    摘要: A method for proactively rebuilding user data in a plurality of storage nodes of a storage cluster in a single chassis is provided. The method includes distributing user data and metadata throughout the plurality of storage nodes such that the plurality of storage nodes can read the user data, using erasure coding, despite loss of two of the plurality of storage nodes. The method includes determining to rebuild the user data for one of the plurality of storage nodes in the absences of an error condition. The method includes rebuilding the user data for the one of the plurality of storage nodes. A plurality of storage nodes within a single chassis that can proactively rebuild the user data stored within the storage nodes is also provided.

    Method and system for data protection and data availability

    公开(公告)号:US12105604B1

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-01

    申请号:US18191576

    申请日:2023-03-28

    IPC分类号: G06F11/20 H04L9/40

    摘要: A method for managing data availability includes making a first determination by a first security module (FSM) that a first storage area network (SAN) infrastructure in a first data center has experienced a failure. The method also includes generating a secure string based on a first configuration parameter. Further, the method includes appending the secure string to a SAN failure notification to generate a secure string-appended request. In addition, the method includes sending the secure string-appended request to a second data center, wherein the second data center is selected based on a second configuration parameter. Moreover, the method includes making a second determination that the encrypted secure string-appended request is valid. Further, the method includes offloading processing of requests sent to the first data center using the second data center.