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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2012
Applicants:
Daniel J. Scales, Mountain View, CA (US);
Mallik Mahalingam, Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Daniel J. Scales, Mountain View, CA (US);
Mallik Mahalingam, Cupertino, CA (US);
Assignee:
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 (2013.01);
Abstract
Techniques for enabling a virtual machine (VM) executing on a physical node to access a partition of a storage system are described. One embodiment associates an identifier with the VM for use when communicating with the storage system, wherein the identifier differs from a default identifier of a host bust adapter (HBA) usable by the physical node to communicate with the storage system.