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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2008
Filed:
Apr. 19, 2005
Applicant:
Edward Ramon Zayas, Milpitas, CA (US);
Inventor:
Edward Ramon Zayas, Milpitas, CA (US);
Assignee:
Network Appliance, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/14 (2006.01); G06F 12/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of serializing administrative operations on virtual volumes includes operating a storage system to maintain a plurality of virtual volumes that share a pool of block storage, where each of the virtual volumes containing data stored on one or more physical storage devices. Administrative access to each of the virtual volumes is controlled individually by imposing serialization on administrative operations directed to each virtual volume.