Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Storage router and method for providing virtual local storage
- Patent Title (中): 用于提供虚拟本地存储的存储路由器和方法
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Application No.: US11851837Application Date: 2007-09-07
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Publication No.: US07694058B2Publication Date: 2010-04-06
- Inventor: Geoffrey B. Hoese , Jeffry T. Russell
- Applicant: Geoffrey B. Hoese , Jeffry T. Russell
- Applicant Address: US TX Austin
- Assignee: Crossroads Systems, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Crossroads Systems, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Austin
- Agency: Sprinkle IP Law Group
- Main IPC: G06F3/00
- IPC: G06F3/00 ; G06F13/00

Abstract:
A storage router (56) and storage network (50) provide virtual local storage on remote SCSI storage devices (60, 62, 64) to Fiber Channel devices. A plurality of Fiber Channel devices, such as workstations (58), are connected to a Fiber Channel transport medium (52), and a plurality of SCSI storage devices (60, 62, 64) are connected to a SCSI bus transport medium (54) The storage router (56) interfaces between the Fiber Channel transport medium (52) and the SCSI bus transport medium (54). The storage router (56) maps between the workstations (58) and the SCSI storage devices (60, 62, 64) and implements access controls for storage space on the SCSI storage devices (60, 62, 64). The storage router (56) then allows access from the workstations (58) to the SCSI storage devices (60, 62, 64) using native low level, block protocol in accordance with the mapping and the access controls.
Public/Granted literature
- US20070299995A1 Storage Router and Method for Providing Virtual Local Storage Public/Granted day:2007-12-27
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