Patent ID: 8601100

Claim:
A solid-state storage system for booting multiple servers comprising: an interface module adapted to communicate with a plurality of servers; a solid-state memory portion that may be accessed through use of the interface module, where the solid-state memory portion is segmented into a plurality of Logical Unit Numbers (LUNs); wherein a solid-state memory associated with a given one of the LUNs includes, within the given one of the LUNs: memory storing a single copy of operating system data for a given operating system, wherein the single copy of the operating system data may be accessed by both a first server and a second server through boot requests received through the interface module; a first memory area corresponding to a first cache accessible by the first server for use by the first server in operating system operations during a boot process for the first server and during operation of the first server after the boot process for the first server has completed; and a second memory area corresponding to a second cache accessible by the second server for use by the second server in operating system operations during a boot process for the second server and during operation of the second server after the boot process for the second server has completed; wherein the interface module is adapted to communicate with external servers using Fibre Channel and each of the first server and the second server includes a Host Bus Adaptor (HBA) for communicating with the interface module.