System and method for interfacing with virtual storage
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1. A system for managing virtualized data storage, comprising:
- a virtualized logical disk object representing a virtual storage container, wherein the virtualized logical disk is an abstract representation of physical storage capacity provided by plurality of physical stores; and
a virtual disk object representing a virtual storage container, wherein the virtual disk object is an abstract representation of one or mere virtualized logical disk objects, the virtual disk object including an exposed management interface; and
wherein the virtual disk object is managed through the management interface to select the one or more logical disk objects represented by the virtual disk object.
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Abstract
A management interface for a virtualized storage system including a virtualized logical disk object representing a virtual storage container, wherein the logical disk is an abstract representation of physical storage capacity provided by plurality of physical stores. A virtual disk object represents a virtual storage container. The virtual disk object is an abstract representation of one or more logical disk objects, the virtual disk object including an exposed management interface. Wherein the virtual disk object is managed through the management interface to select the one or more logical disk objects represented by the virtual disk object.
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17 Claims
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1. A system for managing virtualized data storage, comprising:
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a virtualized logical disk object representing a virtual storage container, wherein the virtualized logical disk is an abstract representation of physical storage capacity provided by plurality of physical stores; and a virtual disk object representing a virtual storage container, wherein the virtual disk object is an abstract representation of one or mere virtualized logical disk objects, the virtual disk object including an exposed management interface; and wherein the virtual disk object is managed through the management interface to select the one or more logical disk objects represented by the virtual disk object. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A method for facilitating management of virtual storage in a storage area network enabling a user can flexibly present a virtual disk to a host, comprising:
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connecting a host to a network storage controller (NSC) via a host agent capable of communicating command-response traffic with logical objects implemented in the network storage controller; creating a logical disk object representing a virtual storage container, wherein the logical disk is an abstract representation of physical storage capacity provided by plurality of physical stores; adding a storage protocol to the logical disk object using a derived disk object in response to a user protocol selection; associating the derived object with a host using a presented disk object referencing the host agent response to a user host selection; and creating a virtual disk object comprising the logical disk object, the derived disk object and the presented disk object. - View Dependent Claims (10)
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11. A method for managing virtual storage in a storage area network, the method comprising:
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providing at least one network storage controller coupled to a plurality of physical disk drives implementing physical storage capacity; creating a physical store object representing each of the plurality of physical disk drives; specifying at least some of the plurality of physical disk drives for inclusion in a storage cell; verifying that sufficient physical store objects were specified to satisfy the requested device failure protection level before creating a storage cell object; and creating the storage cell object representing the storage cell wherein the physical store objects corresponding to the specified physical disk drives are included in the created storage cell. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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