Managing SANs with scalable hosts
First Claim
1. A system comprising:
- a processor;
a connection device for connecting to other components via a storage area network (SAN); and
management application running on said processor that provides the following functionality;
displaying, within a host-centric logical view of the SAN, a host partition hierarchy and storage resource ownership for an attached scalable host system having a plurality of logical and physical partitions, at least some of the partitions having dedicated HBAs and SAN connectivity via a bundled fibre channel switch in the host system, wherein said host-centric view includes the host system, hosting operating systems (OSes), hosted OSes for each hosting OS, OS volumes for each hosted OS, and logical mapping of each OS volume to a SAN storage resource; and
providing a view of a connectivity of hosting and trusted components within the host-centric logical view, said components selected from among partitions, blades, and clusters.
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Abstract
A method, system, and computer program product for providing enhanced management features for a SAN with scalable hosts. Partitioned hosts (or ‘scalable’ hosts) are managed by extending SAN manager host-centric logical views to show (1) the host partition hierarchy and (2) the storage resource ownership for a SAN-attached scalable host. The extended host-centric view includes the host system, hosting OSes (if applicable), hosted OSes for each hosting OS (or the host system), OS volumes for each hosted OS, and logical mapping of each OS volume to the SAN storage resource (logical unit). The SAN manager is extended to also show how hosting (trusted) partitions, blades, and/or cluster members physically connect into a SAN. Users are able to toggle between a host centric view and a physical topology view by selection of items within the interface.
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20 Claims
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1. A system comprising:
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a processor; a connection device for connecting to other components via a storage area network (SAN); and management application running on said processor that provides the following functionality; displaying, within a host-centric logical view of the SAN, a host partition hierarchy and storage resource ownership for an attached scalable host system having a plurality of logical and physical partitions, at least some of the partitions having dedicated HBAs and SAN connectivity via a bundled fibre channel switch in the host system, wherein said host-centric view includes the host system, hosting operating systems (OSes), hosted OSes for each hosting OS, OS volumes for each hosted OS, and logical mapping of each OS volume to a SAN storage resource; and providing a view of a connectivity of hosting and trusted components within the host-centric logical view, said components selected from among partitions, blades, and clusters. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 18)
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7. A storage area network (SAN) comprising:
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a plurality of managed components coupled to a fabric of the SAN; and a SAN manager also coupled to the fabric and which includes a management application that provides the following features; displaying, within a host-centric logical view of the SAN, a host partition hierarchy and storage resource ownership for an attached scalable host system having a plurality of logical and physical partitions, at least some of the partitions having dedicated HBAs and SAN connectivity via a bundled fibre channel switch in the host system, wherein said host-centric view includes the host system, hosting operating systems (OSes), hosted OSes for each hosting OS, OS volumes for each hosted OS, and logical mapping of each OS volume to a SAN storage resource; and providing a view of a connectivity of hosting and trusted components within the host-centric logical view, said components selected from among partitions, blades, and clusters. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 19)
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13. A computer program product comprising:
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a recordable type medium; and program instructions on said recordable type medium including code for; displaying, within a host-centric logical view of the SAN, a host partition hierarchy and storage resource ownership for an attached scalable host system having a plurality of logical and physical partitions, at least some of the partitions having dedicated HBAs and SAN connectivity via a bundled fibre channel switch in the host system, wherein said host-centric view includes the host system, hosting operating systems (OSes), hosted OSes for each hosting OS, OS volumes for each hosted OS, and logical mapping of each OS volume to a SAN storage resource; providing a view of a connectivity of hosting and trusted components within the host-centric logical view, said components selected from among partitions, blades, and clusters; wherein one or more logical OSes share one or more HBAs (host bus adapters) connected to the SAN, and one or more trusted hosting partitions own the HBA(s) and host a plurality of hosted OS partitions, which are not trusted partitions and which have a virtual view of the HBA; and said providing a view of the connectivity comprises providing a view of how hosting partitions, blades, and cluster members physically connect into the SAN, wherein the topology view is further extended to highlight all host partitions in a physical SAN topology view that belong to a particular scalable host. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 20)
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Specification