SECURE SHARING OF STORAGE AREA NETWORKS IN A CLOUD
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Abstract
Techniques disclosed herein describe performing client-requested disk management operations to storage disk units of a storage area network (SAN). A proxy service receives a request from a client of a SAN provider to perform a disk management operation on one or more storage disk units of the SAN provider. The proxy service evaluates a configuration of storage disk units allocated to the client to determine whether the request is valid. If valid, the proxy service performs the requested action to the specified storage disk units on behalf of the client.
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10. A computer program product, comprising:
a computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program code embodied therewith, the computer-readable program code configured to perform an operation comprising; receiving a management request from a client of a SAN provider to perform a disk management operation on one or more storage disk units of the SAN provider, evaluating a configuration of storage disk units allocated to the client to determine whether the management request is valid, and upon determining that the management request is valid based on the configuration, performing the disk management operation to the one or more storage disk units. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A system, comprising:
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a processor; and a memory storing a program, which, when executed on the processor, performs an operation comprising; receiving a management request from a client of a SAN provider to perform a disk management operation on one or more storage disk units of the SAN provider, evaluating a configuration of storage disk units allocated to the client to determine whether the management request is valid, and upon determining that the management request is valid based on the configuration, performing the disk management operation to the one or more storage disk units. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20)
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