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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2007
Bradford B. Glade, Harvard, MA (US);
David W. Harvey, Newton, MA (US);
John Kemeny, Westford, MA (US);
Matthew D. Waxman, Waltham, MA (US);
Bradford B. Glade, Harvard, MA (US);
David W. Harvey, Newton, MA (US);
John Kemeny, Westford, MA (US);
Matthew D. Waxman, Waltham, MA (US);
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
This invention is a system and method for managing allocation of storage resources in a storage network, the storage network including physical data storage on a plurality of storage arrays that are in the storage network, and the network is in communication with one or more hosts and the network further includes a storage network management system, communicatively coupled to the storage arrays via the network, the storage management system includes a storage virtualizer capable of intercepting and virtualizing an IO stream from the one or more hosts and which storage network management system further includes a storage and switch controller in communication with the storage virtualizer for storage network management.