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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2008
Brian E Bakke, Rochester, MN (US);
Ellen M Bauman, Rochester, MN (US);
Timothy J Schimke, Stewartville, MN (US);
Lee a Sendelbach, Rochester, MN (US);
Brian E Bakke, Rochester, MN (US);
Ellen M Bauman, Rochester, MN (US);
Timothy J Schimke, Stewartville, MN (US);
Lee A Sendelbach, Rochester, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, computer program product and computer system for virtualizing an SAS storage adapter, so as to allow logical partitions of a computer system to share a storage device. The method, computer program product and computer system includes assigning a logical storage adapter to an operating system of each of the logical partitions; creating a mapping from each of the logical partitions to a set of logical blocks in the storage device; and configuring the logical storage adapter using a hypervisor, so that a select partition can access a select set of logical blocks that the select partition is allowed to access.