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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2019
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Gerald F. McBrearty, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A storage system port allocator allows defining multiple whitelists for automatically allocating ports on a storage system to virtual machines. An administrator can manually define one or more of the whitelists. In addition, the storage system port allocator can automatically generate one or more whitelists based on defined rules for generating whitelists, and the administrator can then accept, edit, or ignore the automatically-generated whitelists. A whitelist selection policy is defined that determines criteria for selecting among the multiple whitelists for allocating ports to virtual machines. A whitelist zoning policy can define criteria for zoning initiator virtual machines to storage system ports in the whitelists. The storage system port allocator then allocates storage system ports to initiator virtual machines using one or more of the whitelists according to the selected whitelist that is selected according to the whitelist selection policy, and according to the whitelist zoning policy.