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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2003
Russell Thrasher, Graham, NC (US);
Mark Sutter, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Jason Taylor, Apex, NC (US);
Abhijit Muthiyan, Cary, NC (US);
Athiya Ansari, Raleigh, NC (US);
Russell Thrasher, Graham, NC (US);
Mark Sutter, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Jason Taylor, Apex, NC (US);
Abhijit Muthiyan, Cary, NC (US);
Athiya Ansari, Raleigh, NC (US);
Symantec Operating Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A storage area network (SAN), which includes one or more remote systems, a plurality of storage devices, a SAN fabric comprising a plurality of fabric components for coupling the remote systems to the storage devices, and a central system having a SAN management server configured to monitor an amount of available storage in a file system used in the remote systems, and automatically provision additional storage to the file system in the event the amount of available storage in the file system decreases below a predetermined amount.