Storage area network attached clustered storage system

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9203900
APP PUB NO 20130080559A1
SERIAL NO

13359203

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A storage area network (SAN)-attached storage system architecture is disclosed. The storage system provides strongly consistent distributed storage communication protocol semantics, such as SCSI target semantics. The system includes a mechanism for presenting a single distributed logical unit, comprising one or more logical sub-units, as a single logical unit of storage to a host system by associating each of the logical sub-units that make up the single distributed logical unit with a single host visible identifier that corresponds to the single distributed logical unit. The system further includes mechanisms to maintain consistent context information for each of the logical sub-units such that the logical sub-units are not visible to a host system as separate entities from the single distributed logical unit.

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NETAPP INC1395 CROSSMAN AVENUE SUNNYVALE CA 94089

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Brown, Geoffrey Stewart Raleigh, US 7 89
Corbett, Peter Frank Lexington, US 14 320
Natarajan, Srikumar Cary, US 13 112
Patnaik, Pranab Cary, US 48 410
Rao, Santosh Anath Santa Clara, US 1 68
Tan, Kai Cary, US 33 230
Venkatesan, Vivek Morrisville, US 15 127

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