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Infinidat Assigned Patent

Handling enclosure unavailability in storage system

Infinidat Ltd., Hertzelia, Israel, has been assigned a patent (8,930,663) developed by Yochai Yechiel, Moshav Aviel, Israel, Tal Sivan, Kibbutz Sarid, Israel, and Corry Leo, Ramat Gan, Israel, for a “handling enclosure unavailability in a storage system.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “The presently disclosed subject matter includes, inter alia, a storage system and a method of managing allocation of data in case an enclosure in a storage system becomes unavailable. The storage system has a storage space configured as a plurality of RAID groups, each RAID group comprising N parity members. According to one aspect of the disclosed subject matter, responsive to a write request, at least one section allocated to a disk in an unavailable enclosure is identified at least one temporary RAID group in a spare storage space of the storage system is allocated and data related to the write request is written to the alternative RAID group.

The patent application was filed on September 24, 2012 (13/624,988)

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