Monitoring Storage Units in a Storage Network
AssigneePure Storage, Inc.
InventorsThomas D. Cocagne, Asimuddin Kazi, Jason K. Resch
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Abstract
A processing system of a storage network operates by selecting a target storage unit of the storage network for monitoring; determining a plurality of monitoring storage units to monitor the target storage unit; monitoring, by some monitoring storage units of the plurality of monitoring storage units for one or more failure indicators associated with the target storage unit; in response to a determination, by the some monitoring storage units, that one or more failure indicators are associated with the target storage unit, notifying a storage unit entity of the one or more failure indicators.
Claims20
A method for execution by one or more processing modules of one or more computing devices of a storage network, the method comprises:
- selecting a target storage unit of the storage network for monitoring;
- determining a plurality of monitoring storage units to monitor the target storage unit;
- monitoring, by some monitoring storage units of the plurality of monitoring storage units for one or more failure indicators associated with the target storage unit;
- in response to a determination, by the some monitoring storage units, that one or more failure indicators are associated with the target storage unit, notifying a storage unit entity of the one or more failure indicators.
A system for use in a storage network, the system comprising:
- a network interface;
- a memory that stores operational instructions;
- and
- a processing module operably coupled to the network interface and the memory, wherein the processing module is configured to execute the operational instructions which cause the processing module to perform operations that include:
- selecting a target storage unit of the storage network for monitoring;
- determining a plurality of monitoring storage units to monitor the target storage unit;
- monitoring, by some monitoring storage units of the plurality of monitoring storage units for one or more failure indicators associated with the target storage unit;
- in response to a determination, by the some monitoring storage units, that one or more failure indicators are associated with the target storage unit, notifying a storage unit entity of the one or more failure indicators.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.