Netapp, Inc.

Joseph R Sunday

Dean Alan Kalman

Raj Lalsangi

Keith Allen Bare, Ii

Kevin Stovall

Bryan Seay

Sathya Murthy

Vivek Srinivasamurthy

Improved access management techniques for storage networks are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may comprise a processor circuit and an access control component for execution by the processor circuit to select a set of hosts for which to enable access to a logical storage volume of a network storage cluster, select, from among a plurality of nodes of the network storage cluster, a set of nodes via which to enable access to the logical storage volume by the set of hosts, and generate a storage configuration object comprising a parameter identifying the set of nodes. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Access management techniques for storage networks

Improved path management techniques for storage networks are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may comprise a processor circuit, a detection component for execution by the processor circuit to receive an advertisement of a set of paths for accessing a logical storage volume and determine whether the set of paths comprises an optimized path, and a modification component for execution by the processor circuit to, when the set of paths does not comprise an optimized path, send a first instruction to update a reporting nodes parameter for the logical storage volume to identify an owner node for the logical storage volume and a corresponding partner node. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Path management techniques for storage networks

Systems, devices, methods, and computer program products are provided for aligning I/O access from a host operating system with the underlying storage system. A storage operating system can be configured to determine, either manually via operator input or automatically, the size of a data offset caused by misaligned I/O access from a host operating system to a first virtual drive. To align I/O access, the storage operating system can initialize a second virtual disk that is partitioned to accommodate the size of the data offset. The storage operating system can copy header information and main data information from the first virtual disk to the second virtual disk as a background process, non-disruptively aligning the I/O access from the host operating system.

Method for non-disruptively aligning I/O access of a host operating system with the underlying storage system

A solution is introduced to generate structured program language bindings for system interfaces in various kinds of programming languages, which provides a higher level semantic view for system integration. The primary goal of the language bindings is to present a view of the system interfaces as Java objects rather than message building primitives. Consequently, a system developer or integration programmer can focus on functions of the interfaces required for the integration and no longer have to deal with the construction and processing of messages of the interfaces.

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Joseph R Sunday