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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 21, 2016
Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., New Tech Park, SG;
Patrick Leo Caporale, Cary, NC (US);
Michael Neil Condict, Hurdle Mills, NC (US);
David W. Cosby, Raleigh, NC (US);
Jonathan Randall Hinkle, Morrisville, NC (US);
Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) PTE. LTD., New Tech Park, SG;
Abstract
A storage-area network (SAN) system includes one or more storage drives directly connected to a fabric. Each storage drive provisions and operates a drive volume, and creates a security token for the drive volume. The system includes a client computing device directly connected to the fabric, and that executes a SAN software agent to create, mount, and use a logical volume realized by drive volumes of the storage drives. The client computing device accesses each drive volume using the security token for the drive volume. The system includes a SAN manager directly connected to the fabric that manages the drive volumes of the storage drives, manages the logical volume that the SAN software agent operates, receives from each storage drive the security token for the drive volume of the storage drive, and sends the security token for the drive volume of each storage drive to the SAN software agent.