System and method for inband management of a virtual disk

Details System and method for inband management of a virtual disk System and method for inband management of a virtual disk

2006-04-19

2008-08-26

Sparks, Donald (Department: 2187)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory

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C711S161000, C709S219000

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07418569

ABSTRACT:
The present invention provides a system and method for inband management of a virtual disk. A novel volume information command, which is a vendor-specific SCSI command, is sent by a client to a storage appliance, in response, generates a data structure containing various path and networking data associated with a vdisk. This data structure is then returned to the requesting client via a SCSI connection. A client may then utilize the returned information for generating snapshots or other data integrity/backup features offered by the storage appliance.

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