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7428584 Method for managing a network including a storage system  
A SAN manager acquires information which each unit manages from a management agent of each unit connected to a SAN, detects virtual volume mapping and real volume mapping in the SAN based upon the...
7426655 System and method of enhancing storage array read performance using a spare storage array  
A system and method for enhancing read performance of at least one storage array using a spare storage array of coupled spare drives, wherein the at least one storage array includes coupled drives...
7424637 Technique for managing addition of disks to a volume of a storage system  
A technique manages the addition of disks to a volume of a storage system. A disk addition procedure is encapsulated into a DISKADD object conforming to a configuration management framework used to...
7424524 Distributed means of organizing an arbitrarily large number of computers  
A technique for organizing a plurality of computers such that message broadcast, content searching, and computer identification of the entire collection or a subset of the entire collection may be...
7424642 Method for synchronization of a controller  
A system and method for reintegration of a redundant controller after occurrence of a fault is provided, comprising synchronizing outputs of a primary controller with outputs of secondary...
7421550 Storage system and storage system management method  
A storage system secures system redundancy through a simple configuration. A primary storage control device and first secondary storage control device are connected by a synchronous method, and the...
7421613 Method and system for managing of job execution  
The system of the present invention is devised so that the execution of all jobs that access all of the logical volumes containing a physical volume in which trouble has occurred can be stopped at...
7418549 Storage system with disk array controllers that independently manage data transfer  
A disk storage system is disclosed, in which disk storage units themselves can autonomously transmit data to complement storage of data between the disk storage units without provision of an...
7418533 Data storage system and control apparatus with a switch unit connected to a plurality of first channel adapter and modules wherein mirroring is performed  
A storage system has a plurality of control modules for controlling a storage device for accesses from a mainframe host and an open system host respectively supporting different protocols. An open...
7418619 Backup and restore operations of interdependent system components  
Systems and methods for backing up or restoring interdependent applications. During a backup or recovery process, the writers and writer components included in the backup groupings of a client are...
7418621 Redundant storage array method and apparatus  
The present invention is directed to a data storage system utilizing a number of data storage devices. Each of the data storage devices stores primary and mirrored copies of data. Furthermore, the...
7418564 Storage controller, storage control system and storage control method for mirroring volumes  
The present invention provides a storage control technique that leaves no failure in a file system of a secondary volume even if the secondary volume is split from a primary volume with no...
7418622 Storage control system and storage control method  
A storage system enabling effective use of storage resources by immediately releasing a storage device provided as a spare from data recovery processing for a faulty storage device. Even before the...
7418620 Fault tolerant distributed storage method and controller using (N,K) algorithms  
Data sets and blocks are stored in a set of independent, functionally equivalent chunks. These chunks are placed on different elements of a distributed network to achieve pre-defined level of fault...
7415488 System and method for redundant storage consistency recovery  
A file system may selectively perform redundancy consistency recovery and synchronization of mirrors and may store dirty file information in a log or journal that indicates the modification of a...
7415636 Method and apparatus for replacement processing  
A recording-medium controlling apparatus that performs a read-access and a write-access of a recording medium in response to access request from a higher-level apparatus, detects a read error that...
7415587 Method and apparatus for adjusting performance of logical volume copy destination  
When data written into a volume (source volume) in a parity group in a storage apparatus is written into a volume (destination volume) in a parity group in a storage apparatus using a remote copy...
7415629 Method for managing pair states in a storage system  
A storage system includes an application server that provides an application composed of a plurality of programs, a plurality of first volumes that store data that the programs use, and a plurality...
7412619 Integrated circuit capable of error management  
A method according to one embodiment may include receiving a write request to write data in a local storage device. The method of this embodiment may also include detecting a write error in the...
7412620 Method for testing ability to recover from cache directory errors  
A method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed for testing a data processing system's ability to recover from cache directory errors. A directory entry is stored into a cache...
7412594 Method and apparatus for managing data access and storage of data located on multiple storage devices  
An apparatus and method for accessing a data item from a storage system having a plurality of data storage devices are disclosed. I/O operation requests are submitted to multiple data storage...
7412291 Ground-based software tool for controlling redundancy management switching operations  
Systems, methods, and computer program products for easily altering redundancy management data values associated with redundancy management logic that is executed by redundant data processing...
7412575 Data management technique for improving data reliability  
A method for managing data stored in a non-volatile memory having a plurality of memory blocks includes, first, determining if an error occurs in the read data in a selected memory block. If an...
7409583 Volume and failure management method on a network having a storage device  
A SAN manager acquires configuration information from devices constituting a SAN and produces a corresponding relationship between a host computer and a virtual volume (virtual volume mapping) and...
7409470 Determining configuration data in connection with dynamic RDF  
Dynamically creating a communication path between first and second storage devices, includes creating a connection to a source volume on the first storage device and indicating that the source...
7409414 Computer system, management computer, storage system, and backup management method  
A computer system includes a host computer; a storage system for obtaining a snapshot, at a specific point in time, of a data volume, storing data written to the data volume after the specific...
7409584 Automated recovery of computer appliances  
Aspects of the invention provide methods and architectures for enhancing the reliability of computer appliances and reducing the possibilities that human intervention is necessary in the event of a...
7409581 Main memory controller adapted to correct corrupted data by xoring corrupted data to directly generate correct data  
A computer system includes memory modules, a central processing unit and a memory controller. The memory controller is configured to access the memory modules in response to interaction with the...
7409499 Automated recovery from data corruption of data volumes in RAID storage  
The present invention relates to an apparatus or computer executable method of detecting and repairing corrupt data in a RAID data storage system. In one embodiment, parity and checksum data are...
7409598 Information storage system  
A host device 1 includes an NG table 10 for storing addresses specifying areas of a bulk memory 3 into which data cannot be written, a performance-guaranteed environment determination means ...
7409582 Low cost raid with seamless disk failure recovery  
A storage subsystem such as an array of disk drives, method of managing disk drives in the storage subsystem and program product therefor. The storage subsystem may be a redundant array of...
7406621 Dual redundant data storage format and method  
Disclosed is a data storage architecture that provides data regeneration following the failure of two storage domains and that provides conversion for RAID-6 to RAID-5 or RAID-0 without moving or...
7406619 Cache synchronization in a RAID subsystem using serial attached SCSI and/or serial ATA  
A RAID system includes a pair of RAID controllers adapted to operate in active-active mode, each controller including a cache memory and at least one SAS/SATA I/O chip connected to a plurality of...
7406010 Data recording/reproducing method with robust error handling capability and data recording/reproducing apparatus thereof  
A data recording/reproducing method with robust error handling capability and a data recording/reproducing apparatus therefore, are provided. The data recording method includes: dividing data to be...
7404057 System and method for enhancing read performance of a memory storage system including fully buffered dual in-line memory modules  
A system and method for enhanced read performance of a memory storage system is disclosed. The storage system includes a first memory controller. At least one first channel of a plurality of memory...
7404103 Systems and methods for restoring data  
In a network that includes a first database located on a first client and a second database located on a second client, a user or administrator initiates a restore operation. A dynamic mirror...
7401193 System for storing data  
A system is provided for storing data includes storing original data in logical blocks in a first plurality of locations in a data storage system with one and only one logical block of mirrored...
7401191 System and method for performing disk write operations by writing to a data depot prior to an in-place write  
Methods, computer programs, information handling systems, and state machines for performing an atomic write to a data block area are disclosed. The atomic write is an in-place write> The method...
7401255 Mechanisms for recovering data from a backup by comparing transformed data to identify altered memory blocks  
Mechanisms for efficiently restoring one or more memory blocks of a primary computing system. In order to restore a backup memory block, the primary system accesses transformed data that represents...
7398420 Method for keeping snapshot image in a storage system  
A technique for realizing a snapshot function is provided, which can reduce data transfer between a server system and a storage subsystem which is necessary during data copy operations between...
7398367 Storage subsystem that connects fibre channel and supports online backup  
A disk array connected to a storage area network via a fibre channel has one or more ports each controlled by a processor. Even the disk array with one port and one processor executes online...
7398422 Method and apparatus for data recovery system using storage based journaling  
A storage system maintains a journal and a snapshot of one or more data volumes. Two journal entry types are maintained, an AFTER journal entry and a BEFORE journal entry. Two modes of data...
7398417 Storage system for increased cache reliability VI reading redundant disks into cache  
A storage system includes a group of storage devices which include back-up devices configured to assure appropriate response time. When a data request from a host computer arrives, and the number...
7395462 Defect estimation apparatus and related method  
A weighted defect estimating apparatus and a related method for determining a defect estimation value are disclosed. The weighted defect detecting apparatus includes: a defect detecting unit for...
7395387 System and method for backing up and restoring data  
Described is a system and method for allowing applications to interact with a common backup program in a uniform way. The system and method provides a communication mechanism for one or more...
7395452 Method and system for improved reliability in storage devices  
A method of preventing data loss in a data storage system includes supplying write data to a high speed volatile write buffer and supplying electrical power from an energy storage device upon...
7392346 Memory updater using a control array to defer memory operations  
A memory having multiple locations for data storage is updated by performing the following method. The memory locations are grouped into commonly accessible groups of one or more data locations....
7392424 Router and routing protocol redundancy  
A router and routing protocol redundancy are disclosed to reduce service outage or degradation for a network device and thus to increase service availability on a network due to software and...
7392421 Framework for managing clustering and replication  
The present invention provides a framework for managing both clustering and data replication in a software system distributed across multiple nodes. The framework includes at least one agent...
7391237 Robust and economic solution for FPGA bitfile upgrade  
A system for FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) upgrade includes: an FPGA, a FLASH memory and a CPLD. The FLASH memory includes a first section configured to store a workable version of bit files...