| 摘要 |
A system and managing method for cluster-type storage is provided. In one example of the system, the storage system is configured so as to expand from small to large configurations at a reasonable cost with performance decided appropriately to the target system scale. The storage system has an interface with a server or hard drives, a plurality of protocol transformation units, each used for transforming a read or write protocol of the data to be exchanged with the server or hard drives and a plurality of data caching control units, each having a cache memory unit for storing data to be read from or written in the server or hard drives and a function for controlling the cache memory unit. An interconnection is used for the connection between the plurality of the protocol transformation units and the plurality of the data caching control units. In the storage system, the plurality of the data caching control units are divided into a plurality of control clusters while the cache memory unit is controlled only in its corresponding control cluster independently while the system management unit is connected to the interconnection, so that the system management unit manages the plurality of protocol transformation units and so that the plurality of control clusters are managed integrally as one system.
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