Establishing trust in a maintenance free storage container

摘要

A maintenance free storage container includes a plurality of storage servers, wherein the maintenance free storage container allows for multiple storage servers of the plurality of storage servers to be in a failure mode without replacement. The maintenance free storage container further includes a container controller operable to manage failure mode information of the plurality of storage servers, manage mapping of a plurality of virtual storage servers to at least some of the plurality of storage servers based on the failure mode information, communicate storage server access requests with a device external to the maintenance free storage container using addressing of the plurality of virtual storage servers, and communicate the storage server access requests within the maintenance free storage container using addressing of the plurality of storage servers.

主权项

1. A maintenance free storage container comprises:
a plurality of storage servers, wherein a storage server of the plurality storage servers includes a plurality of storage devices and a server control module, wherein the server control module manages storage and retrieval of data from the plurality of storage devices, and wherein the maintenance free storage container allows for multiple storage servers of the plurality of storage servers to be in a failure mode without replacement and allows for multiple storage devices of the plurality of storage devices of one or more the plurality of storage servers to be in the failure mode without replacement; a container controller operable to:
manage failure mode information of the plurality of storage servers;manage mapping of a plurality of virtual storage servers to at least some of the plurality of storage servers based on the failure mode information;communicate storage server access requests with a device external to the maintenance free storage container using addressing of the plurality of virtual storage servers; andcommunicate the storage server access requests within the maintenance free storage container using addressing of the plurality of storage servers; and a container certificate authority operable to:
authenticate the plurality of storage servers to produce a plurality of storage server container certificates that are an indication of trust within the maintenance free storage container; andauthenticate the plurality of virtual storage servers to produce a plurality of virtual storage server container certificates that are an indication of trust within the maintenance free storage container.