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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2002
Filed:
Jan. 04, 1999
Steven M. Blumenau, Holliston, MA (US);
Christopher J. Hackett, Boylston, MA (US);
Matthew J. D'Errico, Southboro, MA (US);
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
Method and apparatus for managing access to one of a plurality of raw storage devices in a computer system including a host computer and a storage system that is coupled to the host computer and that stores data accessed by the host computer. The computer system includes a plurality of logical volumes of data that are visible to the host computer and the storage system and are perceived by the host computer as comprising the plurality of raw storage devices. In accordance with one aspect of the invention, a request to perform an action on the one of the plurality of raw storage devices can be granted, even when the requester has less than system administrator access privileges. In accordance with another aspect of the invention, the one of the plurality of raw storage devices may have associated access privileges information. The access privileges information associated with the one of the plurality of raw storage devices may be compared with information descriptive of the requester, and the request may be granted when the access privileges information associated with the one of the plurality of raw storage devices indicates that the requester is privileged to perform the action on the one of the plurality of raw storage devices.