Inventors:
Gregory E. Burns - The Woodlands TX, US
Keith Pollock - Tomball TX, US
Ronald G. Phillips - Houston TX, US
John H. Marino - Cypress TX, US
Dennis J. Alexander - Spring TX, US
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. - Houston TX
International Classification:
G06F 1/00
US Classification:
710104, 710301, 710316, 710305
Abstract:
A configurable storage array includes a backplane, a plurality of storage devices coupled to the backplane, a segmentable bus coupled to the storage devices, a plurality of input/output connectors coupled to the segmentable bus, and a control board. The control board includes control logic adapted to determine an arrangement of connectors coupled to the input/output connectors and configure the segmentable bus to define a plurality of storage device arrays based on the arrangement. A method for configuring a storage array having a plurality of storage devices includes determining an arrangement of connectors coupled to input/output connectors of the configuring a storage array; and grouping subsets of the storage devices onto isolated bus segments in the storage array based on the arrangement of connectors.