Method and system for identifying storage device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9281992-B2
Application number	US-201114113894-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 19, 2011
Priority date	Apr 25, 2011
Publication date	Mar 8, 2016
Grant date	Mar 8, 2016

Abstract

The disclosure provides a method for identifying a storage device, which includes: obtaining, by a master control server, disk information of a storage device through a storage server; determining, by the master control server, that there is a storage device matching a device identifier according to the disk information, and entering a monitoring state; otherwise, creating a device identifier for the storage device and entering the monitoring state. The disclosure also provides a system for identifying a storage device. Through the method and the system, the storage devices are uniformly identified so as to facilitate unified management of the storage devices.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for identifying a storage device, wherein the storage device is in a distributed storage system based on heterogeneous storage architecture, and identifiers of various storage devices are different, comprising:
obtaining, by a master control server, disk information of a storage device through a storage server;
determining, by the master control server, that there is a storage device matching a device identifier according to the disk information, and entering a monitoring state; and
determining, by the master control server, that there is no storage device matching a device identifier according to the disk information, creating a unique device identifier for the storage device randomly so that identifiers of various storage devices are unified and then various storage devices are managed through unified identifiers and entering the monitoring state;
wherein the determining that there is a storage device matching a device identifier comprises:
comparing the received disk information of the storage device with disk information in an identifier table;
determining that the storage device fully matches the device identifier in the identifier table when the disk information of the storage device fully matches the disk information in the identifier table;
otherwise, determining that the storage device fuzzily matches the device identifier in the identifier table when a half or more of the disk information of the storage device matches the disk information in the identifier table.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the determining that the storage device fuzzily matches the device identifier in the identifier table comprises:
when one storage device fuzzily matches the device identifier in one identifier table, determining that the storage device fuzzily matches the device identifier in the identifier table; or
when each of a first storage device and a second storage device fuzzily matches the device identifier in one identifier table, determining that the first storage device fuzzily matches the device identifier in the identifier table, and a device identifier is assigned to the second storage device; or
when one storage device fuzzily matches the device identifiers in more than one identifier table, retaining and updating one identifier table, and deleting other identifier tables.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the creating a device identifier for the storage device comprises:
creating an identifier table;
generating a device identifier; and
storing the generated device identifier and the disk information of the storage device in the created identifier table.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the entering a monitoring state comprises:
periodically updating, by the storage server, locally-stored disk information of the storage device;
periodically obtaining, by the master control server, the disk information of the storage device through the storage server;
determining that a disk is removed according to the received disk information; and
updating the identifier table.

5. A system for identifying a storage device, wherein the storage device is in a distributed storage system based on heterogeneous storage architecture, and identifiers of various storage devices are different, comprising a master control server and a storage server, wherein:
the master control server is configured to obtain disk information of a storage device through the storage server, to determine that there is a storage device matching a device identifier in an identifier table according to the disk information, and then to enter a monitoring state; and to determine that there is no storage device matching a device identifier in an identifier table according to the disk information, and then to create a unique device identifier for the storage device randomly so that identifiers of various storage devices are unified and then various storage devices are managed through unified identifiers and enter the monitoring state; and
the storage server is configured to obtain the disk information of the storage device, to store the disk information, and to send the disk information to the master control server;
wherein the master control server comprises a first processor and a second processor, wherein:
the second processor is configured to send the received disk information to the first processor; and
the first processor is configured to compare the received disk information sent from the second processor with disk information in the identifier table, to determine that the storage device fully matches the device identifier in the identifier table when the disk information of the storage device fully matches the disk information in the identifier table, and to determine that the storage device fuzzily matches the device identifier in the identifier table when a half or more of the disk information of the storage device matches the disk information in the identifier table.

6. The system according to claim 5 , wherein the first processor is configured:
when determining that one storage device fuzzily matches the device identifier in one identifier table, to determine that the storage device fuzzily matches the device identifier in the identifier table; or
when each of a first storage device and a second storage device fuzzily matches the device identifier in one identifier table, to determine that the first storage device fuzzily matches the device identifier in the identifier table, and to assign a device identifier to the second storage device; or
when one storage device fuzzily matches the device identifiers in more than one identifier table, to retain and update one identifier table, and to delete other identifier tables.

7. The system according to claim 5 , wherein the first processor is configured, when determining that the storage device does not match the device identifier in the identifier table, to generate a device identifier, to create an identifier table, and to store the generated device identifier and the disk information of the storage device in the created identifier table.

8. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the creating a device identifier for the storage device comprises:
creating an identifier table;
generating a device identifier; and
storing the generated device identifier and the disk information of the storage device in the created identifier table.

9. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the entering a monitoring state comprises:
periodically updating, by the storage server, locally-stored disk information of the storage device;
periodically obtaining, by the master control server, the disk information of the storage device through the storage server;
determining that a disk is removed according to the received disk information; and
updating the identifier table.

10. The system according to claim 6 , wherein the storage server comprises a third processor and a fourth processor, wherein,
the second processor is configured, after successful power on, to periodically send a device information obtaining instruction to the third processor, and to send the received disk information of the storage device to the first processor;
the first processor is configured to determine that a disk is removed according to the received disk information, and to update the identifier table;
the third processor is configured to periodically update locally-stored disk information of the storage device through the fourth processor, and to receive the device information obtaining instruction sent by the second processor, and to send the locally-stored disk information to the second processor; and
the fourth processor is configured to read th

Assignees

• Han Shengzhong
• Lei Aimin
• Ji Liang
• Zte Corp

Inventors

• Han Shengzhong
• Lei Aimin
• Ji Liang

Classifications

• H04L41/0853

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• H04L29/08549 Primary

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• H04L67/1097 Primary

  for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS] · CPC title