Flexible allegiance storage and computing architecture

摘要

A virtual storage and computing device includes an array control processor, a virtual device blueprint and a transceiver. Shared and cache memory are linked to the array control processor. The array control processor uses a wireless link to request additional resources from at least one component selected from the group of disk controllers, disk drives, cache memory, shared memory and channel adapters to assemble a virtual device described by the virtual device blueprint. The shared memory and the cache memory have hardwired and/or wireless links to the array control processor. The array control processor receives the virtual device blueprint from a host computer that is linked to the array control processor using a channel adapter or via a wireless link between a host computer and the array control processor.