Hardware detection for switchable storage
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Jun 23, 2005
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Dec 16, 2004
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Dec 20, 2003
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A data processing apparatus, comprising a plurality of host computers, a plurality of storage devices and a switch; wherein each host computer and each storage device is connected to said switch such that each host computer is provided with switchable storage; each host computer has internal storage on which is stored first data that is necessary for said communication between itself and the storage devices to which it is connected, and second data that relates to at least one of said host computers and storage devices; and each host computer is configured to identify each of said host computers that is missing from said second data; and request said first data from each of said identified host computers in order to construct said second data.
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