Patent ID: 6446141
Filing Date: 2002-09-03
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
A storage server comprising:a processing unit, a bus system coupled with the processing unit, including a plurality of slots, slots in the plurality of slots including interfaces to respective data stores; a communication interface; and an operating system coupled with the processing unit, the operating system including: logic controlling transfers among the plurality of slots over the bus system according to an internal format, logic for translating a storage transaction received over the communication interface into the internal format; logic for configuring the plurality of slots according to configuration data; logic to monitor the performance and condition of the storage server; wherein the configuration data includes a table mapping virtual circuits to respective interfaces to data stores; and wherein the logic to monitor the performance and condition of the storage server includes logic to rank a data source according to the performance of the data source and to mirror data from data sources performing below a threshold to a data source performing above the threshold.