公开(公告)号：GB2519314A

公开(公告)日：2015-04-22

申请号：GB201318299

申请日：2013-10-16

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： AMANN STEFAN ,  SRIKRISHNAN JAYA ,  BANZHAF GERHARD ,  WEINMANN ERIC A ,  GDANIEC JOSEPH M

IPC: G06F9/50 ,  G06F3/06

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and system for managing virtual network ports on a physical server (10) to provide a virtual server (20) access to a group of storage resources (110) through a network (100) and comprises the steps: generating a storage access group (SAG) (60) representing a group of storage resources (110); executing a hypervisor (14) on the physical server (10); generating a virtual server (20) on said hypervisor (14); for the virtual server (20) activating access to said network (100). A management console (70) creates and manages the storage access group (60) providing access to the group of storage resources (110) for the virtual server (20) the physical servers (10, 12). The management console comprises a virtual server management facility (72) and a SAG facility (74). The virtual server management facility (72) manages virtual server definitions and activates, deactivates, migrates virtual servers (20, 22). The SAG facility (74) provides management of virtual network port descriptions (60), administration of network port names (WWPN1, WWPN2) and creates, activates and deactivates virtual network ports (40). The SAG represents a group of storage resources, virtual servers requiring access to the storage resources and network ports required to access the storage resources.