公开(公告)号：US08775734B2

公开(公告)日：2014-07-08

申请号：US13297245

申请日：2011-11-15

申请人： Jeffrey B. Hamblin ,  Saurabh Gupta ,  Justin Neddo ,  Joseph Sherman

发明人： Jeffrey B. Hamblin ,  Saurabh Gupta ,  Justin Neddo ,  Joseph Sherman

IPC分类号： G06F12/00 ,  G06F3/06

CPC分类号： G06F3/0631 ,  G06F3/0608 ,  G06F3/0617 ,  G06F3/065 ,  G06F3/0665

摘要： A virtual disk is comprised of segments of unused capacity of physical computer-readable storage media co-located with computing devices that are communicationally coupled to one another through network communications. The computing devices execute one or more of a client process, a storage process and a controller process. The controller processes manage the metadata of the virtual disk, including a virtual disk topology that defines the relationships between certain ones of the physical computer-readable storage media and a particular virtual disk. The client process provide data for storage to certain ones of the computing devices executing the storage processes, as defined by a virtual disk topology, and also read data from storage from those computing devices. The client process additionally expose the virtual disk in the same manner as any other computer-readable medium.

摘要翻译： 虚拟磁盘由物理计算机可读存储介质的未使用容量的段组成，其与通过网络通信彼此通信地耦合的计算设备共同定位。 计算设备执行客户端进程，存储过程和控制器进程中的一个或多个。 控制器进程管理虚拟磁盘的元数据，包括定义物理计算机可读存储介质中某些与特定虚拟磁盘之间的关系的虚拟磁盘拓扑。 客户端进程提供数据以存储到由虚拟磁盘拓扑定义的执行存储过程的某些计算设备，并且还从这些计算设备读取来自存储器的数据。 客户端进程以与任何其他计算机可读介质相同的方式另外暴露虚拟磁盘。

公开(公告)号：US20130124797A1

公开(公告)日：2013-05-16

申请号：US13297245

申请日：2011-11-15

申请人： Jeffrey B. Hamblin ,  Saurabh Gupta ,  Justin Neddo ,  Joseph Sherman

发明人： Jeffrey B. Hamblin ,  Saurabh Gupta ,  Justin Neddo ,  Joseph Sherman

IPC分类号： G06F12/00

CPC分类号： G06F3/0631 ,  G06F3/0608 ,  G06F3/0617 ,  G06F3/065 ,  G06F3/0665

摘要： A virtual disk is comprised of segments of unused capacity of physical computer-readable storage media co-located with computing devices that are communicationally coupled to one another through network communications. The computing devices execute one or more of a client process, a storage process and a controller process. The controller processes manage the metadata of the virtual disk, including a virtual disk topology that defines the relationships between certain ones of the physical computer-readable storage media and a particular virtual disk. The client process provide data for storage to certain ones of the computing devices executing the storage processes, as defined by a virtual disk topology, and also read data from storage from those computing devices. The client process additionally expose the virtual disk in the same manner as any other computer-readable medium.

摘要翻译： 虚拟磁盘由物理计算机可读存储介质的未使用容量的段组成，其与通过网络通信彼此通信地耦合的计算设备共同定位。 计算设备执行客户端进程，存储过程和控制器进程中的一个或多个。 控制器进程管理虚拟磁盘的元数据，包括定义物理计算机可读存储介质中某些与特定虚拟磁盘之间的关系的虚拟磁盘拓扑。 客户端进程提供数据以存储到由虚拟磁盘拓扑定义的执行存储过程的某些计算设备，并且还从这些计算设备读取来自存储器的数据。 客户端进程以与任何其他计算机可读介质相同的方式另外暴露虚拟磁盘。