Data placement technique for striping data containers across volumes of a storage system cluster

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8032704
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12533633

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A method and apparatus for storing data on a computer data storage system are described. Two or more computers are coupled together to form a cluster of computers. One or more data storage devices are coupled to the two or more computers. One or more volumes of data storage devices are implemented on a plurality of computers of the two or more computers, where each volume is a logical arrangement of the one or more storage devices coupled to a selected computer of the plurality of computers. A data container holds data stored by the data storage system. The data container is striped over a plurality of the one or more volumes of data storage devices, whereby data stored in the data container is striped over a plurality of the volumes of data storage devices.

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  • NETAPP, INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Corbett, Peter F Lexington, US 76 3626
English, Robert M Menlo Park, US 65 4535
Kleiman, Steven R Los Altos, US 63 5471

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