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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7500053 | Method and system for grouping storage system components Methods and systems are provided for associating a storage system component, e.g. a server, client, machine, sub-client, or other storage system component, with one or more other storage system components into a group. Storage preferences are defined for the group w... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7500054 | Adaptive grouping in object RAID A method and system for data redundancy, wherein method comprises storing an object in an object storage device, storing a duplicate of the object in a second object storage device, converting the object into any of a grouped object Redundant Array of Independent Di... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7500052 | Quick drive replacement detection on a live RAID system An apparatus comprising a disk array and a controller. The disk array may be configured to send and receive data from the controller. The disk array generally comprises a plurality of disk drives each configured to store a drive signature. The controller may be conf... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7493444 | Substrate structure of disk array apparatus, disk array apparatus and disk array system In a substrate structure of a primary disk array apparatus of a disk array system, the primary disk array apparatus contains in one housing at least a plurality of disk drives and a controller substrate with a controller section for controlling the disk drives, and ... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7487293 | Data storage system and log data output method upon abnormality of storage control apparatus A storage system have a plurality of control modules which control a plurality of disk storage devices, in which system information reading/writing is possible even when problems arise in paths with a plurality of disk devices, and moreover log data can be output ev... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7487294 | RAID systems and setup methods thereof A RAID (Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks) system is provided. At least a first group of disks is selected to create a RAID 5 architecture. A second group of disks within the first group is selected to create a RAID 1 architecture. The RAID 5 and RAID 1 architec... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7487292 | Magnetic disk apparatus, control method and control program therefor A magnetic disk apparatus capable of effectively achieving speedup of the response to a read request, a control method and control program therefore are provided. In a control of a magnetic disk apparatus having a RAID configuration in which the same data is written... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7484038 | Method and apparatus to manage storage devices A method and apparatus to manage storage devices has been disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes logically partitioning each of a number of storage devices in a networked data storage system into segments and managing the segments in response to how often... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7484039 | Method and apparatus for implementing a grid storage system Embodiments of the present invention facilitate implementing external storage systems using commodity computer components to achieve high performance and reliability. An exemplary method facilitates dynamic repairing of disk failures for RAID1 storage coherently acr... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7480765 | Storage unit and circuit for shaping communication signal The present invention relates to a storage unit comprising: a channel control portion for receiving a data input/output request; a cache memory for storing data; a disk control portion for performing input/output processing on data in accordance with the data input/... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478196 | Firmware enabled trap-based RAID implementation Disclosed is a system and method to provide a firmware enabled trap-based Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) implementation for disk drives. A plurality of disk drives in a RAID system are coupled to a chipset. A trap is defined in the chipset for input/out... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7475189 | Advanced hardware and software encapsulation of RAID solutions to facilitate data protection Systems and methodologies that enable restoration of data by software solutions and in the absence of a hardware RAID adapter, via encapsulation of a RAID (Redundant Array of Independent/or Inexpensive Disks) format, by employing a Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) ... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7469315 | Storage controller, and method of controlling storage controller to improve the reliability of the storage controller The present invention controls supply of power to a storage device on the basis of an access status, moves a logical storage device between physical storage devices having different power supply modes, reduces energization time, and improves the reliability. A reloc... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7467259 | System and method to protect data stored in a storage system Systems and methods are provided for generating a snapshot that records desired data, while allowing a client server to continue sending data to the storage system. In an example of an embodiment of the invention, a method is provided for recording data generated by... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7467257 | Identification of storage to acquire to maintain the intent of logical volumes A method, system, computer system, and computer program product to specify the particular characteristics of hardware to acquire to enable a logical volume to be maintained in accordance with the purpose for which the logical volume was created. In response to a com... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7467258 | Storage virtualizer and computer system using the same The storage virtualizer does not repeatedly switch a path used by a host computer when failure occurs in a path between a physical storage unit and a virtual storage unit. The storage virtualizer comprises: a plurality of targets connectable to the host computer; a ... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7464224 | Method for controlling storage policy according to volume activity A storage virtualization system is disclosed for performing data migration operations among the virtual LU (logical units) defined by the system. In one aspect of the present invention, the selection of a target virtual LU is based on a policy that makes a recommend... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7464222 | Storage system with heterogenous storage, creating and copying the file systems, with the write access attribute While a large amount of files can be intensively managed, the capacity scalability is limited by the number of magnetic disk drives and the number of magnetic tape drives which can be connected to a system, thereby failing to provide satisfactory long-term managemen... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7464223 | Storage system including storage adapters, a monitoring computer and external storage A storage system having a cluster configuration that prevents a load from concentrating on a certain storage node and enhances access performance is disclosed. The storage system is provided with plural storage adaptors having a cache memory for storing data read/wr... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7461203 | Disk array apparatus and method for controlling the same An apparatus includes a controller and a plurality of disk drives. The controller has a communication control unit for accepting a data input/output request, a disk controller unit for controlling a disk drive, and a cache memory for temporarily storing data transfe... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7457916 | Storage system, management server, and method of managing application thereof In a storage system having a plurality of disk array devices connected through a network to a host for running an application, and a management server for monitoring the disk array devices, the disk array device includes a physical disk error detecting unit for dete... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7454565 | System and method for distributed partitioned library mapping Embodiments of the present invention provide a system and method of media library access that eliminates, or at least substantially reduces, the shortcomings of prior art media library access systems and methods. More particularly, embodiments of the present inventi... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7454567 | Method and apparatus for data storage using striping An apparatus for data storage includes a cluster of NFS servers. Each server has network ports for incoming file system requests and cluster traffic between servers. The apparatus includes a plurality of storage arrays in communication with the servers. The servers ... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7454566 | System and method for adaptive RAID configuration One embodiment of the present invention includes the steps of determining the optimal RAID level to implement for a given disk drive array, and to the extent applicable, making unallocated disk space available to the user in the form of unprotected disk space. The m... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7447839 | System for a distributed column chunk data store An improved system and method for a distributed column chunk data store is provided. A distributed column chunk data store may be provided by multiple storage servers operably coupled to a network. A storage server may include a database engine for partitioning a da... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7447837 | Control device for a RAID device A control device for a RAID device is provided which changes, when one or more disks are added, allocation of segments to existing stripes, each of which have created by use of existing disks, by use of the one or more disks to be added without changing the number o... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7447840 | Disk array and method for reading/writing data from/into disk unit When a bus is used as a data communication channel, data within a disk unit cannot be reproduced or copied into a spare disk while a control unit is making read/write processing based on a request from a host computer, or vice versa. Thus, a loop is constructed by a... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7447838 | Program, method and apparatus for virtual storage management that assigns physical volumes managed in a pool to virtual volumes A capacity designating unit designates a capacity, which a user desires, of virtual disks provided to a disk pool. A first selecting unit selects one (1) or a plurality of physical disks that satisfy the designated capacity from a disk pool that registers the physic... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7444468 | Storage system and method using interface control devices of different types A storage has NAS and SAN functions and a high degree of freedom to configure a system to reduce the management and operation cost. The storage includes a plurality of interface slots in which a plurality of interface controllers can be installed, a block I/O interf... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7444420 | Apparatus and method for mirroring and restoring data An apparatus and method for mirroring data is provided wherein integrity of data on a mirror device is maintained during and after a restore process of data to a standard volume. Because integrity of the mirror is maintained, data from the mirror may be used to perf... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7444469 | Storing information regarding operation of an automated data storage library to memory and to a reserved cartridge A controller of an automated data storage library is configured to store information regarding operation of the library in a memory; to reserve at least one data storage cartridge; and to operate a data storage drive and the memory to transfer at least a portion of ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7444483 | Management apparatus, management method and storage management system A management apparatus, a management method, and a storage management system that more specifically manage power consumption, making it easy to analyze problems relating to power consumption or properly relocate data are provided. A power consumption for each... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7444489 | Applications for non-disruptively moving data between logical disk regions in a data storage system A method is provided for a data storage system to change the RAID type, the layout characteristics, and the performance characteristics of a virtual volume mapped to logical disk regions in one or more logical disks while the data storage system remains online to a ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7444482 | Storage pools with write atomicity A method, apparatus, and computer program product for storage pools with write atomicity. An abstraction manager enforces write atomicity and disallows options which are inconsistent with write atomicity. The abstraction manager constructs through a physical device ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7441095 | Storage system and storage controller A first storage controller has a multilayer memory hierarchy constructed by LDEV (logical device) connected from LUN, and VDEV (virtual device) connected to the lower order of the LDEV. At least one of the VDEVs is constructed by mapping the memory resources arrange... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7441130 | Storage controller and storage system A controller performs data communication with a host system based on fiber channel protocol and controls data input/output to or from a SATA disk drive. The controller includes an FC/SATA converter powered by a main power supply, and a resource management processor ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7441029 | Storage system managing data through a wide area network In a storage system, a server apparatus and a storage apparatus are provided, while the server apparatus is connected via a LAN to one, or plural sets of computers so as to accept an access request of file data issued from the computers, whereas the storage apparatu... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7441077 | Device for transmitting data and method for the same Techniques for a simple file system for facilitating file transmission are disclosed. According to one aspect of the techniques, a storage device comprises a memory, a creation module, a status record module and a data reading/writing module. The creation module cre... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7441083 | Data storage device management system A method for managing a storage subsystem including a plurality of information recording media includes selecting at least one recording medium from the plurality of information recording media to perform a service to the selected recording medium. A locating device... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7437506 | Method and system for virtual storage element placement within a storage area network A method and system for virtual storage element placement within a storage area network is disclosed. According to one embodiment of the present invention, first data is received which specifies an access characteristic of a virtual storage element to be associated ... | 10/14/2008 |
