Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Centralized management center for managing storage services
-
Application No.: US14695349Application Date: 2015-04-24
-
Publication No.: US10387263B2Publication Date: 2019-08-20
- Inventor: Vineeth Karinta , Santosh C. Lolayekar , Vrishali Namdeo Thorat , Ramanathan Padinjarel Somanathan , Jayakrishnan Ramakrishna Pillai , Rajaram Balakrishnan
- Applicant: NETAPP, INC.
- Applicant Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Assignee: NETAPP, INC.
- Current Assignee: NETAPP, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Agency: Klein, O'Neill & Singh, LLP
- Main IPC: G06F11/14
- IPC: G06F11/14 ; G06F16/172 ; G06F16/182 ; G06F16/185 ; G06F16/188 ; G06F16/951 ; G06F21/62 ; H04L29/08 ; G06F11/20

Abstract:
Methods and systems for providing storage services in a networked environment are provided. A management device interfaces with a plurality of management layers that communicates with a plurality of application plugins executed by a plurality of computing devices. Each application plugin is associated with an application for providing storage services for stored objects managed by a storage system. A same request and response format is used by the management device to obtain information from the plurality of management layers regarding storage space used by the plurality of applications for storing the stored objects and the management device maintains storage space information as a storage resource object for virtual storage resources and physical storage resources used by the plurality of applications for storing the stored objects.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160188417A1 CENTRALIZED MANAGEMENT CENTER FOR MANAGING STORAGE SERVICES Public/Granted day:2016-06-30
Information query