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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 25, 2011
Eric Kevin Butler, San Jose, CA (US);
Pi-wei Chin, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Scott Joseph Colbeck, San Jose, CA (US);
Kaladhar Voruganti, San Jose, CA (US);
Eric Kevin Butler, San Jose, CA (US);
Pi-Wei Chin, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Scott Joseph Colbeck, San Jose, CA (US);
Kaladhar Voruganti, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A mechanism is provided to automatically retrieve zoning best practices from a centralized repository and to ensure that automatically generated zones do not violate these best practices. A user selects a set of hosts and storage controllers. The user also selects a guidance policy for creating the zone, and also selects a set of validation policies that must be enforced on the zone. If the user selects a guidance policy and a validation policy combination that is incompatible, the mechanism allows the user to change either the selected guidance policy or the set of validation policies. If the user has selected consistent-zoning as a guidance policy, then the mechanism automatically selects a guidance policy that does not violate the known validation policies.