Patent ID: 8171098
Filing Date: 2012-05-01
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. On a set of computerized devices, a method of providing a storage service, the method comprising: connecting the computerized devices to a computer network, the computerized devices including direct attached storage devices; configuring the computerized devices to behave as hosts which individually and logically couple to an array of storage devices through a shared bus; and performing a host IO operation among the computerized devices, the host IO operation involving accessing data from a particular computerized device through the computer network to the direct attached storage devices of the computerized devices; wherein direct attached storage of a first computerized device includes a disk; wherein configuring the computerized devices includes: wherein exporting the partition of the disk from the first computerized device includes controlling direct local IO access to the partition of the disk and providing a logical export access point on the first computerized device to enable exporting of the partition of the disk from the first computerized device; and wherein the method further comprises: wherein controlling the direct local IO access and providing the logical export access point includes: