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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 09, 2004
Jeffrey A. Hanson, Westminster, CO (US);
Paul B. Monday, Highlands Ranch, CO (US);
Brandon E. Taylor, Longmont, CO (US);
Jeffrey A. Hanson, Westminster, CO (US);
Paul B. Monday, Highlands Ranch, CO (US);
Brandon E. Taylor, Longmont, CO (US);
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Various embodiments of a system and method for provisioning a storage consumer with storage in a SAN networked computer system are disclosed. A SAN networked computer system may include one or more consumers of storage, such as host computers, a plurality of storage devices, and one or more SAN fabrics including the devices needed to connect the storage consumers to the storage devices. The system may also include a storage consumer-centric storage provisioner. To provide a storage consumer with storage, the storage consumer-centric storage provisioner may perform discovery on the system to acquire topologic information on the system along with the characteristics of system components. The storage provisioner may contextualize the information into the perspective of the storage consumer to present a user with candidate system configuration parameters from which to select, and when sufficient parameter selections have been input, the provisioner may configure the system according to the user selections.