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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2014
Emc Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Alexey V. Shusharin, Saint Petersburg, RU;
Sergey A. Alexeev, Saint Petersburg, RU;
Jean-Pierre Bono, Westborough, MA (US);
William Whitney, Marlborough, MA (US);
Dmitry N. Tylik, Saint Petersburg, RU;
Stanislav Gorshkov, Saint Petersburg, RU;
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
Techniques are described for allowing a data storage system to provision all vVols (or other similar virtual storage containers) as logical storage devices, which can be bound to either a block-based protocol endpoint as an exposed LUN or to a file-based protocol endpoint as a file. This may be accomplished by operating, as part of the file-based protocol endpoint, a lightweight filesystem that creates file abstractions that map to underlying logical storage devices.