US 2003/0204671 A1 · Storage system

Abstract

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 interface controller which has SAN functions and which can be installed in the slot, a file I/O interface controller which has NAS functions and which can be installed in the slots, a storage capacity pool including a plurality of disk devices accessible from the interface controllers, and a storage capacity pool controller to control the storage capacity pool.

Claims16

Dependent claims

A storage system, comprising:

a plurality of slots in which interface control devices of different types are installed;
a plurality of disk devices;
and
a control section for controlling storage areas of the disk devices, wherein:
the control section keeps information indicating a correspondence between the storage areas of the disk devices and the interface control devices of different types installed in the slots;
and
the interface control devices of different types use the storage areas according to the information indicating the correspondence.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

10/223,857Filed 19 Aug 2002

Priority

JP 2002-12517226 Apr 2002

Published

30 Oct 2003

Term ends

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Classification16 codes

G06F 3/0605
Improving or facilitating administration, e.g. storage management: by facilitating the interaction with a user or administrator
G06F 3/0604
Specifically adapted to achieve a particular effect: improving or facilitating administration, e.g. storage management
G06F 3/0631
Configuration or reconfiguration of storage systems: by allocating resources to storage systems
G06F 3/0632
Configuration or reconfiguration of storage systems: by initialisation or re-initialisation of storage systems

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Claims16