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 00018
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, transfer ready messages from each of the plurality of mirrored storages; and
send a transfer ready message from the virtualizer to the initiator 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
