Patent ID: 8621059

Claim:
A storage system, comprising: a processor configured to determine that the storage system owns a first shelf enclosure services storage device of a first shelf of storage devices, wherein the storage system is a first enclosure services master of the first shelf of storage devices, the processor further configured to send a first request for enclosure services information for a second shelf of storage devices, wherein the storage system owns a non-enclosure service storage device of the second shelf of storage devices, wherein the information is requested from a second enclosure services master of the second shelf of storage devices, wherein the second enclosure services master owns a second enclosure services storage device of the second shelf of storage devices, a network adaptor configured to transmit the first request through an intermediate network device to the second enclosure services master, the intermediate network device configured to operatively connect between the first enclosure services master and the second enclosure services master, and the network adaptor further configured to receive the first requested enclosure services information from the second enclosure services master.