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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 01, 2011
Konstantinos Roussos, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Kumaravel Thillai, Chennai, IN;
Anupama Kirpekar, Saratoga, CA (US);
Atul Bhalodia, Cary, NC (US);
Vani Bappanadu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Konstantinos Roussos, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Kumaravel Thillai, Chennai, IN;
Anupama Kirpekar, Saratoga, CA (US);
Atul Bhalodia, Cary, NC (US);
Vani Bappanadu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Network Appliance, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Centralized management of both host-side storage objects on multiple heterogeneous host-side servers and logical data containers on a storage system is performed by a management server. In one embodiment, the management server automatically provisions a logical data container on the storage server according to the storage virtualization strategy without administrator interaction at the storage system. In another embodiment, the management server automatically performs a snapshot operation on logical data containers on the storage system according to the storage virtualization strategy without administrator interaction at the storage system. In another embodiment, the management server centrally monitors for out-of-space events in the storage system and automatically correlates the out-of-space events in the storage system to out-of-space events for the host-side file systems.