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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2008
Filed:
Feb. 21, 2002
Sanjay Shyam, Los Altos, CA (US);
Victor Sheng-jian Liang, San Jose, CA (US);
Savur Anand Rao, San Jose, CA (US);
Stephen Merritt Branch, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Patricia Driscoll Choi, Apex, NC (US);
Mark Edward Thomen, San Jose, CA (US);
Sanjay Shyam, Los Altos, CA (US);
Victor Sheng-Jian Liang, San Jose, CA (US);
Savur Anand Rao, San Jose, CA (US);
Stephen Merritt Branch, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Patricia Driscoll Choi, Apex, NC (US);
Mark Edward Thomen, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A dynamic construct is associated with one or more operational parameters of one or more components of a storage management system, wherein a pointer to the construct is retained in metadata for the storage management system, the values of the construct are stored in a first repository separate from a second repository normally used to store the metadata for the storage management system. The value of the construct in the first repository is allowed to change dynamically at any point of time without affecting the metadata in the second repository. Thereafter, the value of the construct in the first repository is retrieved and used as the operational parameter, instead of a static value in the metadata in the second repository. This provides a level of indirection that allows the construct to be applied dynamically in the storage management system.