Patent ID: 9519666
Filing Date: 2016-12-13
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method for data storage, comprising: in a system that comprises one or more storage controllers, multiple servers and multiple storage devices that communicate over a network, running user applications on the servers; storing, in a memory of the one or more storage controllers, a data structure, which (i) represents thinly-provisioned user volumes used by the servers in storing data on the storage devices, and (ii) specifies for the user volumes a logical-to-physical mapping between logical addresses and physical addresses of the storage devices; generating, in a given server that is configured to run one or more of the user applications, storage commands that access one or more of the user volumes, by performing in the given server: sending the storage commands, which specify the physical addresses, from the given server that is configured to run the one or more of the user applications directly to one or more of the storage devices, without executing code on the one or more storage controllers.