Patent ID: 8793343
Filing Date: 2014-07-29
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: configuring two or more storage gateways as a storage gateway group on a local network and assigning one or more volumes to each storage gateway device in the storage gateway group, wherein each storage gateway provides an interface between one or more client processes on the local network and a storage service on a remote network for accessing client data maintained on a remote data store by the storage service; performing, by each storage gateway in the storage gateway group: determining that one of the storage gateways in the storage gateway group is unavailable; selecting another storage gateway in the storage gateway group to take over a different volume that was assigned to the unavailable storage gateway; the selected storage gateway taking over storage gateway operations for the different volume; and exposing the different volume to the one or more client processes on the local network via the one or more I/O ports.