公开(公告)号：US11372951B2

公开(公告)日：2022-06-28

申请号：US16711742

申请日：2019-12-12

Applicant: EMC IP Holding Company LLC

Inventor： Mahalakshmi Sokkalal ,  Maneesh Pusalkar ,  Vigneshwaran Rajasekaran ,  Surendra Singh Chauhan ,  Udit Tyagi ,  Nagaveni Bhavi ,  Gopinath Marappan

IPC: G06F21/10 ,  G06F13/40 ,  G06F21/12

Abstract: An apparatus includes a first host device comprising a first multi-path input-output (MPIO) driver configured to discover additional MPIO drivers of additional host devices of an enterprise system that utilize a given piece of software for controlling delivery of input-output operations to a storage system over selected ones of a plurality of paths through a network, the given software being licensed by a license server external to the enterprise system. The first MPIO driver is also configured to obtain a pool of licenses for the given software from the license server and to receive from a given one of the additional MPIO drivers a request for a license to utilize the given software. The first MPIO driver is further configured to check out one of the pool of licenses and enable use of the given software by the given additional MPIO based at least in part on the checked-out license.

公开(公告)号：US20210182365A1

公开(公告)日：2021-06-17

申请号：US16711742

申请日：2019-12-12

Applicant: EMC IP Holding Company LLC

Inventor： Mahalakshmi Sokkalal ,  Maneesh Pusalkar ,  Vigneshwaran Rajasekaran ,  Surendra Singh Chauhan ,  Udit Tyagi ,  Nagaveni Bhavi ,  Gopinath Marappan

IPC: G06F21/10 ,  G06F13/40 ,  G06F21/12

Abstract: An apparatus includes a first host device comprising a first multi-path input-output (MPIO) driver configured to discover additional MPIO drivers of additional host devices of an enterprise system that utilize a given piece of software for controlling delivery of input-output operations to a storage system over selected ones of a plurality of paths through a network, the given software being licensed by a license server external to the enterprise system. The first MPIO driver is also configured to obtain a pool of licenses for the given software from the license server and to receive from a given one of the additional MPIO drivers a request for a license to utilize the given software. The first MPIO driver is further configured to check out one of the pool of licenses and enable use of the given software by the given additional MPIO based at least in part on the checked-out license.