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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2013
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Hirotaka Nakagawa, Sagamihara, JP;
Hideo Saito, Kawasaki, JP;
Nobuhito Mori, Kawasaki, JP;
Tomohiro Kawaguchi, Chigasaki, JP;
Abhishek Johri, Yokohama, JP;
Naoko Ikegaya, Sagamihara, JP;
Yoichi Goto, Yokohama, JP;
Kunihiko Nashimoto, Ninomiya, JP;
Akira Yamamoto, Sagamihara, JP;
HITACHI, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An example of the present invention is a storage system comprising a first real storage apparatus including a plurality of real resources. The first real storage apparatus includes: real resource groups allocated to a plurality of virtual storage apparatuses; first management information for associating virtual resource identifiers individually assigned to real resources in a namespace independently defined for each of the plurality of virtual storage apparatuses with real resource identifiers individually assigned to the real resources in a namespace defined for the first real storage apparatus; and a controller for receiving a command including a designation with a virtual resource identifier, converting the virtual resource identifier in the command into a real resource identifier with reference to the first management information, and processing the command with the converted real resource identifier.