Patent ID: 9130968
Filing Date: 2015-09-08
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. An enterprise cache cluster of a plurality of cache appliances that are clustered together to form a single bump-in-the-wire device for caching data operations requested from one or more networked data storage devices by one or more remote clients, the enterprise cache cluster comprising: a cache memory at each cache appliance for caching data that is requested by a remote client; a packet processor at each cache appliance coupled to the cache memory in said cache appliance and to one or more I/O ports for splicing connections between the data storage devices and remote clients, where the packet processor inspects network protocol traffic state parameters received on the I/O ports to determine if a request from a remote client can be serviced by the enterprise cache cluster; and a connection interface for connecting the plurality of cache appliances over a cluster bus into a single bump-in-the-wire device to form a cohesive memory pool from the cache memories in the cache appliances.