Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20080104321
Filing Date: October 08, 2007
Inventors: Jeevan Kamisetty, Maurilio Cometto
Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Current U.S. Classification: 711, 711/114000
View Prior Art for Claim 00017
A storage area network comprising:
an initiator;
a plurality of mirrored storages; and
a virtualizer, wherein the virtualizer is configured to:
receive, at a virtualizer, a write command from an initiator in a storage area network, wherein the storage area network includes the initiator and a plurality of mirrored storages;
send, from the virtualizer, a write command to the plurality of mirrored storages;
receive, at the virtualizer, a transfer ready message from a first of the plurality of mirrored storages;
send a transfer ready message from the virtualizer to the initiator in response to the receiving of the transfer ready message from the first of the plurality of mirrored storages;
receive, at the virtualizer, a data message from the initiator; and
send, from the virtualizer, a data message to the plurality of mirrored storage once transfer ready messages have been received from each of the plurality of mirrored storages.
Title Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD symposium on Principles of database systems
ISBN 0-89791-070-2
Description
The standard two phase commit protocol for distributed databases involves a co-ordinator (virtualiser), query to commit (transfer ready), commit (data message), equivalent to this patents claims
