Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Storage system, method for managing the same, and storage controller
- Patent Title (中): 存储系统,管理方法和存储控制器
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Application No.: US11598673Application Date: 2006-11-14
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Publication No.: US07774543B2Publication Date: 2010-08-10
- Inventor: Atsuya Kumagai
- Applicant: Atsuya Kumagai
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd
- Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Foley & Lardner LLP
- Priority: JP2006-264550 20060928
- Main IPC: G06F3/06
- IPC: G06F3/06 ; G06F12/00 ; G06F13/00 ; G06F13/28

Abstract:
The present invention provides a storage system, a method for managing the same, and a storage controller, to obtain a storage apparatus that uses iSCSI protocol, which makes it possible for each user to configure the necessary settings within the scope of their provided right.A storage system includes one or more host computers; and a storage controller that provides each of the one or more host computers with a plurality of logical volumes, each including a storage area for reading/writing data from/to, and also being either allocated or not allocated to one or more of the host computers, the storage controller including: a management unit that manages information relating to the plurality of logical volumes as volume information; an identification unit that identifies necessary volume information from the volume information based on a command from a host computer from among the one or more host computers; and an execution unit that executes, based on the necessary volume information identified by the identification unit, predetermined processing, on a logical volume from among the plurality of logical volumes, according to function information relating to the logical volume included in the necessary volume information.
Public/Granted literature
- US20080082749A1 Storage system, method for managing the same, and storage controller Public/Granted day:2008-04-03
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