ACCESS MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES FOR STORAGE NETWORKS

• US 20150169647A1
• Filed: 01/24/2014
• Published: 06/18/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/13/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
• Original Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
• Inventors: Kalman, Dean, Lalsangi, Raj, Sunday, Joseph R.
• Granted Patent: US 9,819,738 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/182 Distributed file systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1097 for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]

Abstract

Improved access management techniques for storage networks are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may comprise a processor circuit and an access control component for execution by the processor circuit to select a set of hosts for which to enable access to a logical storage volume of a network storage cluster, select, from among a plurality of nodes of the network storage cluster, a set of nodes via which to enable access to the logical storage volume by the set of hosts, and generate a storage configuration object comprising a parameter identifying the set of nodes. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Claims

1. At least one machine-readable medium comprising a set of instructions that, in response to being executed on a computing device, cause the computing device to:

select a set of hosts for which to enable access to a logical storage volume of a network storage cluster;

select, from among a plurality of nodes of the network storage cluster, a set of nodes via which to enable access to the logical storage volume by the set of hosts; and

generate a storage configuration object comprising a parameter identifying the set of nodes.

2. The at least one machine-readable medium of claim 1, the set of nodes comprising an owner node of the logical storage volume and a partner node of the owner node.

3. The at least one machine-readable medium of claim 2, the owner node and the partner node comprising a high-availability pair, the set of nodes exclusively comprising the owner node and the partner node.

4. The at least one machine-readable medium of claim 1, the storage configuration object identifying a logical unit number (LUN) of the logical storage volume.

5. The at least one machine-readable medium of claim 1, the storage configuration object enabling access to the logical storage volume via a set of logical interfaces (LIFs) of the network storage cluster, each of the set of LIFs corresponding to one of the set of nodes.

6. The at least one machine-readable medium of claim 5, at least one of the set of LIFs comprising an optimized path to the logical storage volume.

7. The at least one machine-readable medium of claim 1, comprising instructions that, in response to being executed on the computing device, cause the computing device to generate a group configuration object identifying the set of hosts, the storage configuration object comprising information associating the group configuration object with the logical storage volume.

8. An apparatus, comprising:

a processor circuit; and

an access control component for execution by the processor circuit to select a set of hosts for which to enable access to a logical storage volume of a network storage cluster, select, from among a plurality of nodes of the network storage cluster, a set of nodes via which to enable access to the logical storage volume by the set of hosts, and generate a storage configuration object comprising a parameter identifying the set of nodes.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, the set of nodes comprising an owner node of the logical storage volume and a partner node of the owner node.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, the owner node and the partner node comprising a high-availability pair, the set of nodes exclusively comprising the owner node and the partner node.

11. The apparatus of claim 8, the storage configuration object identifying a logical unit number (LUN) of the logical storage volume.

12. The apparatus of claim 8, the storage configuration object enabling access to the logical storage volume via a set of logical interfaces (LIFs) of the network storage cluster, each of the set of LIFs corresponding to one of the set of nodes.

13. The apparatus of claim 8, comprising an abstraction component for execution by the processor circuit to generate a group configuration object identifying the set of hosts, the storage configuration object comprising information associating the group configuration object with the logical storage volume.

14. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

selecting a set of hosts for which to enable access to a logical storage volume of a network storage cluster;

selecting, from among a plurality of nodes of the network storage cluster, a set of nodes via which to enable access to the logical storage volume by the set of hosts; and

generating, by a processor circuit, a storage configuration object comprising a parameter identifying the set of nodes.

15. The method of claim 14, the set of nodes comprising an owner node of the logical storage volume and a partner node of the owner node.

16. The method of claim 15, the set of nodes further comprising one or more additional nodes within a mobility domain of the logical storage volume.

17. The method of claim 15, the owner node and the partner node comprising a high-availability pair, the set of nodes exclusively comprising the owner node and the partner node.

18. The method of claim 14, the storage configuration object identifying a logical unit number (LUN) of the logical storage volume.

19. The method of claim 14, the storage configuration object enabling access to the logical storage volume via a set of logical interfaces (LIFs), each of the set of LIFs corresponding to one of the set of nodes.

20. The method of claim 14, comprising generating a group configuration object identifying the set of hosts, the storage configuration object comprising information associating the group configuration object with the logical storage volume.