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System and method for administration of virtual servers

  • US 8,190,641 B2
  • Filed: 08/27/2007
  • Issued: 05/29/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/13/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for administration of a plurality of virtual filers (vfilers) executing on one or more physical storage systems having at least one processor, the method comprising:

  • assigning one or more vfilers of the plurality of vfilers to each group of a plurality of groups, wherein a vfiler is a partition of network and storage resources of the one or more physical storage systems allocated to the vfiler;

    granting an administrator permissions to a group of the plurality of groups; and

    in response to administration requests from the administrator, only displaying attributes associated with the one or more vfilers assigned to the group of the plurality of groups, wherein information associated with the one or more physical storage systems are not displayed.

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