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Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2015

Filed:

Mar. 20, 2006
Applicants:

K. Uday Kishore, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Shankar Balasubramanian, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Konstantinos Roussos, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Brian M. Hackworth, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

K. Uday Kishore, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Shankar Balasubramanian, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Konstantinos Roussos, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Brian M. Hackworth, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/1097 (2013.01); G06F 17/302 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and method integrates namespace management and storage management in a storage system environment. According to the invention, an integrated management framework provides an underlying infrastructure that supports various heterogenous storage access protocols within a single, logical namespace service. The logical namespace service is based on extensions to underlying storage management processes that cooperate to create the integrated management framework. Notably, these extensions are embodied as novel library functionality.


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