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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 08, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2005
David John Carr, Southampton, GB;
Michael John Jones, Tucson, AZ (US);
Robert Bruce Nicholson, Southsea, GB;
William James Scales, Fareham, GB;
Barry Douglas Whyte, Eastleigh, GB;
David John Carr, Southampton, GB;
Michael John Jones, Tucson, AZ (US);
Robert Bruce Nicholson, Southsea, GB;
William James Scales, Fareham, GB;
Barry Douglas Whyte, Eastleigh, GB;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A storage control apparatus, in communication with a cluster of storage devices in a storage network having plural administrator systems, comprises a cluster lock requester component, a cluster lock receiver component and a configuration component, wherein, responsive to receipt of a cluster lock by said cluster lock receiver component, the configuration component is operable to configure a logical resource object within said cluster. The apparatus may also include a cluster lock granter component operable to grant a cluster lock to the cluster lock receiver component responsive to said cluster lock requester component. A method of operating a storage control apparatus includes method steps corresponding to functional components of an apparatus and may be embodied in computer program codes.