A method and system for pre-attaching volumes onto a host. The method includes analyzing a plurality of hosts in a cloud environment. The method also includes identifying a least populated host based on the analyzation of the hosts. The least populated host is based on the attributes of the hosts. The method also includes identifying at least one popular volume in the cloud environment. The popular volume is a volume type most frequently used by the hosts in the cloud environment. Further, the method includes attaching the popular volume to the least populated host.

A method and system for pre-attaching volumes onto a host. The method includes analyzing a plurality of hosts in a cloud environment. The method also includes identifying a least populated host based on the analyzation of the hosts. The least populated host is based on the attributes of the hosts. The method also includes identifying at least one popular volume in the cloud environment. The popular volume is a volume type most frequently used by the hosts in the cloud environment. Further, the method includes attaching the popular volume to the least populated host.

A device connectable between a host computer and a computer peripheral over a standard bus interface is disclosed, used to improve security, and to detect and prevent malware operation. Messages passing between the host computer and the computer peripherals are intercepted and analyzed based on pre-configured criteria, and legitimate messages transparently pass through the device, while suspected messages are blocked. The device communicates with the host computer and the computer peripheral using proprietary or industry standard protocol or bus, which may be based on a point-to-point serial communication such as USB or SATA. The messages may be stored in the device for future analysis, and may be blocked based on current or past analysis of the messages. The device may serve as a VPN client and securely communicate with a VPN server using the host Internet connection.

A data storage device includes: a data storage medium; a processor comprising a plurality of processor cores; a plurality of application acceleration black-box (AABB) slots including reconfigurable logic blocks, interconnects, and memories; a host interface that receives a host command from a remote application running on a remote host computer, wherein the host command includes an image file including a register-transfer level (RTL) bitstream and a firmware driver; and a configuration controller that downloads the RTL bitstream to an AABB slot of the plurality of AABB slots and reconfigure the AABB slot, and load the firmware driver to a processor core of the processor. The processor core loaded with the firmware driver runs a data acceleration process of the remote application to access and process data stored in the data storage medium using the RTL bitstream downloaded in the AABB slot.

Systems, methods, and devices for identifying characteristics of communication cable are described. For example, a connector of a communication cable may include a set of pins. When the connector is plugged into an active device such as a transceiver, a pattern of the set of pins may be determined. This pattern may be associated with a characteristic of the communication cable (e.g., manufacture, manufacturing date, etc.).

Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide an apparatus for processor core testing. The apparatus generally includes a high-speed input-output (HSIO) interface, a general purpose input-output (GPIO) interface, a multiplexer having a first input coupled to the GPIO interface, a test controller coupled between the HSIO interface and a second input of the multiplexer, and one or more processor cores coupled to the output of the multiplexer.

Hardware error detection on a high-speed serial (HSS) connection including tracking, by a hardware state machine on a HSS receiver, errors in a data stream, wherein tracking, by the hardware state machine, the errors in the data stream comprises, for each sample of incoming data: inspecting, by the hardware state machine, a detected error indicator in a test control register to determine whether an error has been detected in the sample; incrementing, by the hardware state machine, an error count in a hardware error counter if the test control register indicates an error has been detected in the sample; clearing, by the hardware state machine, the detected error indicator if the test control register indicates an error has been detected in the sample; and incrementing, by the hardware state machine, a sample count in a sample count register.

Multiple virtual host ports corresponding to a same physical host port may be determined by or on behalf of a storage system, for example, in response to logging the one or more virtual host ports into the storage system. For one or more virtual host ports, it may be determined whether the virtual host port is connected to a same fabric port as another virtual host port, where a fabric port is a port of a fabric configured to connect to a virtual host port. If two virtual host ports are determined to be connected to a same fabric port, it may be concluded that the two virtual host ports correspond to (e.g., share) a same physical host port. One or more actions may be taken on a storage network based at least in part on a determination that two virtual host ports are sharing a same physical host port.

The present disclosure relates to an integrator for a storage device, a corresponding storage device and a method of manufacturing the same. The integrator comprises a base board comprising a first interface and a second interface; a connector coupled to the first interface of the base board, the connector being connectable with at least one server in the storage device; an input/output (I/O) part coupled to the second interface of the base board and connectable with an I/O device; and a switcher arranged on the base board and adapted to exchange data between the first interface and the second interface to support data transmission of the I/O device or other servers with the server via the integrator.

Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to performing varying frequency memory sub-system background scans using either or both a timer and an I/O event limit. This can be accomplished by identifying a background scan trigger event from one of multiple possible types of background scan trigger events, such as a timer expiration or reaching an event count limit. In response to the background scan trigger event, a background scan can be initiated on a memory portion. The background scan can produce results, such as CDF-based data. When a metric based on the results exceeds a background scan limit, a refresh relocation can be performed and logged. A metric can be generated based on the CDF-based data, obtained error recovery depth data, or refresh relocation event data. When the metric is above or below corresponding background scan thresholds, a background scan frequency can be adjusted.