公开(公告)号：US07904482B2

公开(公告)日：2011-03-08

申请号：US11606537

申请日：2006-11-30

申请人： Arthur F. Lent ,  Brian Pawlowski ,  Vijayan Rajan ,  Jeffrey S. Kimmel ,  Mohan Srinivasan

发明人： Arthur F. Lent ,  Brian Pawlowski ,  Vijayan Rajan ,  Jeffrey S. Kimmel ,  Mohan Srinivasan

IPC分类号： G06F17/30

CPC分类号： G06F17/30067 ,  Y10S707/99932

摘要： A system and method enabling transparent access to blocks, such as virtual disks, stored on a storage system using a file-based protocol. The system and method traps in-coming file-based protocol open commands to check for a predetermined modification to the file name. If the system and method detects the predetermined modification, then the virtual disk associated with the file name is exported to the client issuing the open command and the client receives a response from the storage system. The client, in response to receiving the response to the open command, creates a new device instantiation for reading and writing raw data to the virtual disk.

摘要翻译： 使用基于文件的协议，能够透明地访问存储在存储系统上的块（例如虚拟磁盘）的系统和方法。 系统和方法捕获进来的基于文件的协议打开命令，以检查对文件名的预定修改。 如果系统和方法检测到预定的修改，则将与文件名相关联的虚拟磁盘导出到发出打开命令的客户端，并且客户端从存储系统接收响应。 响应于接收到打开命令的响应，客户机创建新的设备实例，用于将原始数据读取和写入虚拟磁盘。

公开(公告)号：US20100211740A1

公开(公告)日：2010-08-19

申请号：US12771572

申请日：2010-04-30

申请人： Vijayan Rajan ,  Brian Pawlowski ,  Jeffrey S. Kimmel ,  Gary Ross

发明人： Vijayan Rajan ,  Brian Pawlowski ,  Jeffrey S. Kimmel ,  Gary Ross

IPC分类号： G06F12/00

CPC分类号： G06F3/0664 ,  G06F3/0605 ,  G06F3/0635 ,  G06F3/067 ,  H04L67/1097

摘要： A system integrates an intelligent storage switch with a flexible virtualization system to enable the intelligent storage switch to provide efficient service of file and block protocol data access requests for information stored on the system. A storage operating system executing on a storage system coupled to the switch implements the virtualization system to provide a unified view of storage to clients by logically organizing the information as named files, directories and logical unit numbers. The virtualization system may be embodied as a file system having a write allocator configured to provide a flexible block numbering policy to the storage switch that addresses volume management capabilities, such as storage virtualization.

摘要翻译： 系统将智能存储交换机与灵活的虚拟化系统集成，使智能存储交换机能够为存储在系统上的信息提供文件和块协议数据访问请求的有效服务。 在与交换机耦合的存储系统上执行的存储操作系统实现虚拟化系统，以通过以命名文件，目录和逻辑单元号逻辑地组织信息来向客户端提供统一的存储视图。 虚拟化系统可以体现为具有写分配器的文件系统，其被配置为向存储交换机提供灵活的块编号策略，所述存储交换机处理诸如存储虚拟化的卷管理能力。

公开(公告)号：US20090113420A1

公开(公告)日：2009-04-30

申请号：US11925133

申请日：2007-10-26

申请人： Brian Pawlowski

发明人： Brian Pawlowski

IPC分类号： G06F9/455

CPC分类号： G06F9/5083 ,  G06F9/45533 ,  H04L67/10

摘要： A system and method employs one or more clients of a virtualized compute cluster as an execution engine for a portion of a storage operating system implemented as a virtual machine on a storage system node of a storage system cluster. If there is processing bandwidth of a client that is not fully utilized and the load on the storage system node is high, the portion of the storage operating system is ported to the client of the compute cluster in a manner that externally distributes the storage architecture from the storage system cluster. Advantageously, the processing performance of the storage system cluster is improved by, among other things, offloading some of the network processing load from the storage system node.

摘要翻译： 系统和方法使用虚拟化计算集群的一个或多个客户端作为在存储系统集群的存储系统节点上实现为虚拟机的存储操作系统的一部分的执行引擎。 如果客户端的处理带宽没有得到充分利用并且存储系统节点的负载较高，那么存储操作系统的部分将以从外部分配存储体系结构的方式移植到计算集群的客户端 存储系统集群。 有利地，除了别的以外，通过从存储系统节点卸载一些网络处理负载来提高存储系统集群的处理性能。

公开(公告)号：US08468521B2

公开(公告)日：2013-06-18

申请号：US11925133

申请日：2007-10-26

申请人： Brian Pawlowski

发明人： Brian Pawlowski

IPC分类号： G06F9/455 ,  G06F13/00 ,  G06F15/16 ,  G06F15/167 ,  G06F15/173

CPC分类号： G06F9/5083 ,  G06F9/45533 ,  H04L67/10

摘要： A system and method employs one or more clients of a virtualized compute cluster as an execution engine for a portion of a storage operating system implemented as a virtual machine on a storage system node of a storage system cluster. If there is processing bandwidth of a client that is not fully utilized and the load on the storage system node is high, the portion of the storage operating system is ported to the client of the compute cluster in a manner that externally distributes the storage architecture from the storage system cluster. Advantageously, the processing performance of the storage system cluster is improved by, among other things, offloading some of the network processing load from the storage system node.

摘要翻译： 系统和方法使用虚拟化计算集群的一个或多个客户端作为在存储系统集群的存储系统节点上实现为虚拟机的存储操作系统的一部分的执行引擎。 如果客户端的处理带宽没有得到充分利用并且存储系统节点的负载较高，那么存储操作系统的部分将以从外部分配存储体系结构的方式移植到计算集群的客户端 存储系统集群。 有利地，除了别的以外，通过从存储系统节点卸载一些网络处理负载来提高存储系统集群的处理性能。