Emc Corporation

Paula Emily McAdam

Russell R Laporte

Brian R Gruttadauria

Subbulakshmi Premkumar

Paul Malenfant

Gregory William Lazar

Sreenath Rajagopal

Scott David Von Rhee

Patricia B Campbell

Robin Christine Burr

Scott Von Rhee

Qing Shou

Nethaji Kapavarapu

In a storage system management device, a method for graphically displaying a component of a data storage system. The method includes mapping, by the storage system management device, each component of a set of components of the data storage system to at least one graphical image of the component, displaying, by the storage system management device, a tree table of the set of components of the data storage system, and outputting, by the storage system management device, at least one graphical image of a component of the set of components selected from the tree table.

Dynamic graphical display of components in a data storage system

A method is used in facilitating storage pool provisioning. A sequence of user interface screens is provided for configuring one or more physical devices of a data storage system for use in connection with provisioning a storage pool. By the sequence, a provisioning specification describing a RAID type and capacity is received. Best practices information describing one or more sets of data storage system best practices is received. By the sequence, a proposal is presented for performing configuration processing in connection with initialization of the data storage system to configure a first portion of the one or more physical devices for use with the storage pool. The best practices information is used in producing the proposal.

Facilitating storage pool provisioning

A method is used in managing storage pool provisioning. One or more physical devices of a data storage system is configured for use in connection with provisioning a storage pool. A provisioning specification is received describing a RAID type and capacity. A rule is received describing one or more sets of data storage system best practices. Each of the one or more sets specifies data storage system best practices for a different type of data storage system including a first type associated with the data storage system. Configuration processing is performed in connection with initialization of the data storage system to configure a first portion of the one or more physical devices for use with the storage pool. A rules engine and best practices for the first type of data storage system specified in the rule are used in performing the configuration processing.

Managing storage pool provisioning

Communications connections with data storage systems are managed. A discovery process is executed to identify an iSCSI port on data storage system. Settings for the iSCSI port are accepted as user input at a server. Communication is performed from the server to the data storage system to configure the iSCSI port.

Managing communications connections with data storage systems

A method for controlling an operation of a server system by a client system interconnected with the server by a network. The server includes a network communications server facility, a server resident scripting utility for creating and executing server scripts and a resident server page that includes a scripting for creating a server object, the server object including a server method for controlling an operation of the server system and an applet for invoking the server page and corresponding to a server method to be executed in the server system. The client includes a browser for communicating with the server. A translated server page is downloaded from the server to the client. The translated server page corresponds to the server page resident in the server and the script in the translated server page is translated into a form executable by the browser in the client. An input to the client invokes the applet, which in turn invokes the script of the translated server page. The server system responds to the translated script by creating an instance of the server object and executing the server method corresponding to the applet. The translated script may also pass an argument to the server object after the server object is invoked, and the server method may return data to the translated server page and the applet may read the returned data and the state of the applet may be updated according to the returned data.

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Shrewsbury, MA, United States of America

Paula Emily McAdam