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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2012
Nathan B. Beach, Richardson, TX (US);
David A. Gillam, The Colony, TX (US);
Frederick Crable, Allen, TX (US);
Nathan B. Beach, Richardson, TX (US);
David A. Gillam, The Colony, TX (US);
Frederick Crable, Allen, TX (US);
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus to provide, in a cloud infrastructure environment having a compute layer, a network layer, a storage layer, and management layer, wherein the management layer has no knowledge of at least some of existing infrastructure services, selecting hosts containing host bus adapters and/or network adapters having unique identifiers, using the unique identifiers to analyze the storage layer for: storage groups having host initiators that match the unique identifiers of the host bus adaptors, and/or network file storage (NFS) exports exposed to the unique identifiers as client IP addresses.