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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2009
Filed:
May. 31, 2006
Prasenjit Sarkar, San Jose, CA (US);
Gauri Sudhir Shah, San Jose, CA (US);
Prasenjit Sarkar, San Jose, CA (US);
Gauri Sudhir Shah, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A storage provisioning system generates a storage management framework comprising a resource model representing a set of storage devices for use by an application. The resource model comprises a set of data containers and at least one volume container such that the resource model provides storage to the application independent of a plurality of interfaces used by the set of storage devices. The volume container is a specialized data container that interfaces directly with the storage devices and represents a bottom of a storage stack comprising at least one data container and at least one volume container. The resource model comprises a rules module for governing the construction of the data containers and the volume container and association between the data containers and the volume container.