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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 15, 2010
Bradford B. Glade, Harvard, MA (US);
David W. Harvey, Newton, MA (US);
John Kemeny, Westford, MA (US);
Lee W. Vantine, Oxford, 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);
Lee W. VanTine, Oxford, MA (US);
Matthew D. Waxman, Waltham, MA (US);
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A method, system, and program product for managing a plurality of storage area networks including a plurality of data storage volumes and one or more hosts, wherein the volumes are in a storage network, wherein the network includes one or more processors in the network, the program product comprising a computer-readable storage medium encoded with computer-executable program code enabling controlling virtualization of volumes in the storage network and managing a SCSI virtualization service; wherein the volume virtualization controller service supports virtualization enabling virtual Storage Area Networks (SAN)s by parsing between front-end SANs and back-end SANs regardless of physical configuration of the front and back-end SANs, to enable mapping from virtual volumes to back-end storage elements across virtual SANs.