公开(公告)号：US07769861B2

公开(公告)日：2010-08-03

申请号：US10720567

申请日：2003-11-24

申请人： Justin Russell Bendich ,  David Maxwell Cannon ,  Alireza Razzaghi Daryan ,  Brian Augustine Delaire ,  Barry Lynn Eberly ,  David Wilson Groves ,  Srinivas Jandhyala ,  Michael Loren Lamb ,  Edward Martin McCrickard ,  Raymond Matthew Swank

发明人： Justin Russell Bendich ,  David Maxwell Cannon ,  Alireza Razzaghi Daryan ,  Brian Augustine Delaire ,  Barry Lynn Eberly ,  David Wilson Groves ,  Srinivas Jandhyala ,  Michael Loren Lamb ,  Edward Martin McCrickard ,  Raymond Matthew Swank

IPC分类号： G06F12/00 ,  G06F15/167 ,  G06F15/173 ,  G06F9/46

CPC分类号： G06F3/0665 ,  G06F3/0605 ,  G06F3/0631 ,  G06F3/067

摘要： An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for provisioning storage resources according to a modeling policy. The modeling apparatus includes a monitoring module, a policy module, and a provisioning module. The monitoring module monitors the storage resources on the storage system. The policy module stores and maintains storage management, storage provisioning, and storage resource modeling policies. A user may access and specify these policies via a specification module. The provisioning module automatically provisions new storage resources, such as logical unit numbers (LUNs) according to the storage provisioning policies and modeling policies. The modeling policy defines a modeling strategy by which new storage resources are provisioned to include some or all of the attributes of a model storage resource.

摘要翻译： 公开了根据建模策略来供应存储资源的装置，系统和方法。 建模装置包括监视模块，策略模块和配置模块。 监控模块监视存储系统上的存储资源。 策略模块存储和维护存储管理，存储设置和存储资源建模策略。 用户可以通过规范模块访问和指定这些策略。 配置模块根据存储配置策略和建模策略自动提供新的存储资源，例如逻辑单元号（LUN）。 建模策略定义了一种建模策略，通过该策略将新的存储资源配置为包含模型存储资源的某些或全部属性。

公开(公告)号：US07177935B2

公开(公告)日：2007-02-13

申请号：US09972207

申请日：2001-10-05

申请人： Paul Lawrence Bradshaw ,  Brian Augustine Delaire ,  Daniel Graham Douglas ,  Douglas Paul Dunham ,  Tina Lynn Dunton ,  David Wilson Groves ,  Vincent Jomartin Hoang ,  Nancy Lott Hobbs ,  His Tai (Steve) Hsu ,  Louis Leo Lorber ,  Ngoc V. Nguyen ,  Gregory John Tevis ,  Ophelia K. Yip

发明人： Paul Lawrence Bradshaw ,  Brian Augustine Delaire ,  Daniel Graham Douglas ,  Douglas Paul Dunham ,  Tina Lynn Dunton ,  David Wilson Groves ,  Vincent Jomartin Hoang ,  Nancy Lott Hobbs ,  His Tai (Steve) Hsu ,  Louis Leo Lorber ,  Ngoc V. Nguyen ,  Gregory John Tevis ,  Ophelia K. Yip

IPC分类号： G06F12/00 ,  G06F13/00 ,  G06F13/28 ,  G06F17/30 ,  G06F15/173

CPC分类号： G06F17/30197 ,  G06F17/30082 ,  H04L41/0893 ,  Y10S707/99953 ,  Y10S707/99956

摘要： A storage area network (SAN) includes a plurality of digital data processors, each with a file system that effects access to one or more storage devices coupled to the SAN, for example, via an interconnect fabric. A process (e.g., executing on a manager digital data processor) responds to a file system over-extension notification from at least a selected one of the digital data processors, e.g., by assigning a further storage device to the selected digital data processor. The type of response is, more particularly, determined in accord with a hierarchically defined policy inherited, in whole or in part, from one or more hierarchical groups of which the digital data processor is a member.

摘要翻译： 存储区域网络（SAN）包括多个数字数据处理器，每个数字处理器具有文件系统，该文件系统例如经由互连结构来访问耦合到SAN的一个或多个存储设备。 处理（例如，在管理者数字数据处理器上执行）例如通过向所选数字数据处理器分配另外的存储设备来响应来自至少所选数字数据处理器的文件系统过度扩展通知。 更具体地，响应的类型根据从数字数据处理器是其成员的一个或多个分层组全部或部分继承的分层定义的策略来确定。

公开(公告)号：US06996670B2

公开(公告)日：2006-02-07

申请号：US09972462

申请日：2001-10-05

申请人： Brian Augustine Delaire ,  Daniel Graham Douglas ,  Douglas Paul Dunham ,  Vincent Jomartin Hoang ,  Nancy Lott Hobbs ,  Louis Leo Lorber ,  Sandy Yuen Sun Hing McDonald ,  Gregory John Tevis

发明人： Brian Augustine Delaire ,  Daniel Graham Douglas ,  Douglas Paul Dunham ,  Vincent Jomartin Hoang ,  Nancy Lott Hobbs ,  Louis Leo Lorber ,  Sandy Yuen Sun Hing McDonald ,  Gregory John Tevis

IPC分类号： G06F12/14 ,  G06F15/173

CPC分类号： G06F3/0601 ,  G06F17/30197 ,  G06F2003/0697 ,  H04L67/1002 ,  H04L67/1012 ,  H04L67/1029 ,  H04L67/1031 ,  H04L67/1036

摘要： The invention provides a storage area network (SAN) of type having one or more digital data processors coupled to one or more storage devices. At least a selected one of the hosts includes a file system that effects access by the host to assigned storage devices. This can be, for example, a conventional AIX or other host platform file system that oversees file and other data accesses between the host and those assigned devices. That host can be associated, according to these aspects of the invention, with lower and upper capacity bounds for purposes of file system extension. In response to a request by (or on behalf of) the selected digital data processor for extension of the file system, the manager assigns one of more further storage devices to that digital data processor.

公开(公告)号：US06952698B2

公开(公告)日：2005-10-04

申请号：US09972271

申请日：2001-10-05

申请人： Brian Augustine Delaire ,  Douglas Paul Dunham ,  Nancy Lott Hobbs ,  Sandy Yuen Hing McDonald ,  Gregory John Tevis ,  Ophelia K. Yip

发明人： Brian Augustine Delaire ,  Douglas Paul Dunham ,  Nancy Lott Hobbs ,  Sandy Yuen Hing McDonald ,  Gregory John Tevis ,  Ophelia K. Yip

IPC分类号： G06F17/30

CPC分类号： G06F17/30197 ,  G06Q20/40

摘要： The invention provides an improved SAN of type having one or more host digital data processors, coupled to one or more storage devices. At least a selected one of the hosts includes a file system that effects access by the host to assigned storage devices. This can be, by way of non-limiting example, an AIX journal file system, a Veritas file system, a Unix file systems using Veritas volume manager or other host platform file system that oversees file and other data accesses between the host and those assigned devices. In response to a request by (or on behalf of) the selected host for extension of the file system, a manager (e.g., executing on a further digital data processor) assigns one of more further storage devices to that digital data processor. An agent associated with the first digital data processor that responds to the assignment by extending the file system to include the assigned storage device.

摘要翻译： 本发明提供一种具有耦合到一个或多个存储设备的一个或多个主机数字数据处理器的类型的改进的SAN。 至少所选择的一个主机包括影响主机访问分配的存储设备的文件系统。 作为非限制性示例，可以使用AIX日志文件系统，Veritas文件系统，使用Veritas卷管理器或其他主机平台文件系统的Unix文件系统来监视主机与分配的文件和其他数据访问 设备。 响应于（或代表）所选择的主机用于扩展文件系统的请求，管理者（例如，在另外的数字数据处理器上执行）将更多的存储设备中的一个分配给该数字数据处理器。 与第一数字数据处理器相关联的代理，其通过扩展文件系统来包括分配的存储设备来响应该分配。