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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2011
David W. Groves, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael L. Lamb, San Jose, CA (US);
Raymond M. Swank, San Jose, CA (US);
Kevin J. Webster, Lake Worth, FL (US);
David W. Groves, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael L. Lamb, San Jose, CA (US);
Raymond M. Swank, San Jose, CA (US);
Kevin J. Webster, Lake Worth, FL (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Provided are a method, system, and program for creating at least one volume in a disk storage system. A request is received to create at least one volume on the disk storage system indicating a volume size and number of volumes to create. Selection is made of a storage pool object representing one of a plurality of storage pools having available storage space to create the requested number of volumes. retrieving a storage configuration service of the disk storage system using an association of a disk storage system object representing the disk storage system and the selected storage pool object. The disk storage system object representing the disk storage system is associated with the retrieved storage configuration service. A volume size of the volume to create is set to a calculated size. The storage pool is set as the selected storage pool object. A method is invoked through the retrieved storage configuration service for each volume in the requested number of volumes to create.