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Granted Patent B2
US 11,922,070 · App. 17/990,586 · Granted Mar 5, 2024

Granting access to a storage device based on reservations

Inventors: Gordon James Coleman (Los Altos, CA); Peter E. Kirkpatrick (Los Altos, CA); Roland Dreier (Mountain View, CA)
Assignee: PURE STORAGE, INC.
G06F3/0659G06F3/061G06F3/067G06F9/4881H04L67/1097H04L67/60
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Patent No.
US 11,922,070
App. No.
17/990,586
Granted
Mar 5, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method includes, responsive to receiving a modified first reservation command from a storage controller, identifying, by a storage drive, a first range of storage based on a first range identifier of the modified reservation command. The method also includes granting, by the storage drive, a reservation for access to the storage drive on behalf of a first host controller by associating the reservation for the first range with a second range of storage.

Claims (28)

1. A storage enclosure comprising:

a plurality of multi-ported solid state storage devices presenting a first storage protocol; and

a plurality of storage controllers, operatively coupled to the plurality of multi-ported solid state storage devices, the plurality of storage controllers configured to:

present the plurality of multi-ported solid state storage devices as solid state storage devices presenting a second storage protocol that is different than the first storage protocol; and

modify a reservation request using the second storage protocol from a host to replace a host identifier related to the reservation request with a logical identifier using the first storage protocol, the logical identifier representing the requesting host.

2. The storage enclosure of claim 1 , wherein the first storage protocol is Non-volatile Memory Express (NVMe) over Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe).

3. The storage enclosure of claim 1 , wherein the second storage protocol is Non-volatile Memory Express (NVMe) over fabric.

4. The storage enclosure of claim 3 , wherein the second storage protocol is NVMe over Transmission Control Protocol (TCP).

5. The storage enclosure of claim 3 , wherein the second storage protocol is NVMe over Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA).

6. The storage enclosure of claim 1 , wherein each of the plurality of storage controllers replace a same host identifier with a same logical identifier.

7. The storage enclosure of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of multi-ported solid state storage devices has erase blocks that are directly mapped.

8. A method comprising:

presenting, by a processing device of a storage controller, a plurality of multi-ported solid state storage devices presenting a first storage protocol as solid state storage devices presenting a second storage protocol that is different than the first storage protocol; and

modifying a reservation request using the second storage protocol from a host to replace a host identifier related to the reservation request with a logical identifier using the first storage protocol, the logical identifier representing the requesting host.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the first storage protocol is Non-volatile Memory Express (NVMe) over Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe).

10. The method of claim 8 , wherein the second storage protocol is Non-volatile Memory Express (NVMe) over fabric.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the second storage protocol is NVMe over Transmission Control Protocol (TCP).

12. The method of claim 10 , wherein the second storage protocol is NVMe over Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA).

13. The method of claim 8 , wherein each of the plurality of storage controllers replace a same host identifier with a same logical identifier.

14. The method of claim 8 , wherein the plurality of multi-ported solid state storage devices has erase blocks that are directly mapped.

15. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions which, when executed, cause a processing device of a storage controller to:

present a plurality of multi-ported solid state storage devices presenting a first storage protocol as solid state storage devices presenting a second storage protocol that is different than the first storage protocol; and

modify a reservation request using the second storage protocol from a host to replace a host identifier related to the reservation request with a logical identifier using the first storage protocol, the logical identifier representing the requesting host.

16. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15 , wherein the first storage protocol is Non-volatile Memory Express (NVMe) over Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe).

17. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15 , wherein the second storage protocol is Non-volatile Memory Express (NVMe) over fabric.

18. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 17 , wherein the second storage protocol is NVMe over Transmission Control Protocol (TCP).

19. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 17 , wherein the second storage protocol is NVMe over Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA).

20. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15 , wherein each of the plurality of storage controllers replace a same host identifier with a same logical identifier.

Continuity (6)
Continuation 17065309 · Oct 7, 2020
Continuation 16001827 · Jun 6, 2018
Continuation 15667529 · Aug 2, 2017
Continuation 15419886 · Jan 30, 2017
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