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Patent Number
Patent Inventor Names
William Patrick Delaney0
Bret S. Weber0
Kenneth F. Day0
Rodney A. DeKoning0
Date of Patent
June 9, 2015
Patent Application Number
14062374
Date Filed
October 24, 2013
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Patent abstract
Disclosed is a storage system architecture. An Environmental service module (ESM) is coupled to one or more array controllers. The ESM is configured with a central processing unit and one or more assist functions. The assist functions may include nonvolatile memory. This nonvolatile memory may be used for write caching, mirroring data, and/or configuration data. The assist functions, or the ESM, may be controlled by the array controllers using SCSI or RDMA commands.
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