Patent ID: 9443550
Filing Date: 2016-09-13
CPC Classification: G11B

Claim Text:
1. A data migration assembly, comprising: a chassis configured for insertion into a tape drive slot of a tape library or a rack enclosure; and a first tape drive card supported within an interior space of the chassis, the first tape drive card includes: a processor; and a copy manager run by the processor that is adapted to communicate with a host application, running on a server communicatively linked to the first tape drive card, during a data migration to receive data migration control parameters and, in response, to copy a set of data from one or more source data storage devices to one or more destination data storage devices, wherein the first tape drive card further comprises one or more memory devices providing random access memory (RAM) and wherein the copy manager partitions the RAM into a number of partitions for use in performing a like number of migration sessions, whereby each of the migration sessions has a dedicated portion of the RAM.