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Patrick J Hunt

Anurag Jain

Anoop George Ninan

Thomas L Watson

David Gillam

Salvatore DeSimone

Michael G Hegerich

Frederick A Crable

Stephen A Mendes

Vladislav Dranov

Douglas J Santoli

Suresh K Biddappa

Adam C LaPlante

Nandakishore Venkatesan

A method, computer program product and system enabling provisioning of a storage volume across network resources through the storage provisioning interface, wherein the storage provisioning interface enables provisioning of network resources to enable presentation of a provisioned storage volume, wherein the provisioned storage volume is enabled to be provisioned across a plurality of storage resources across the network resources, and wherein the provisioned storage volume is enabled to be a redundant distributed volume.

Storage provisioning in a data storage environment

Methods and apparatus to provide command abstraction. In one embodiment, a method includes obtaining information on commands for a plurality of devices including devices of the same type having different command structures, receiving a generic command from a user directed to one of the devices of the same type, determining, using a computer processor, whether the generic command is supported, extracting parameters from the generic command, and generating from the extracted parameters and the generic command a device-specific command for execution by the one of the devices of the same type.

Method and apparatus for command abstraction

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Patrick J Hunt