公开(公告)号：AU2005234046B2

公开(公告)日：2011-01-27

申请号：AU2005234046

申请日：2005-04-11

Applicant: NETAPP INC

Inventor： ROA GUILLERMO

IPC: G06F3/06 ,  G06F11/14 ,  H04L29/06

Abstract: An architecture provides the ability to create and maintain multiple instances of virtual servers, such as virtual filers (vfilers), within a server, such as a storage appliance. A vfiler is a logical partitioning of network and storage resources of the storage appliance platform to establish an instance of a multi-protocol server. Each vfiler is allocated a subset of dedicated units of storage resources, such as volumes or logical sub-volumes (qtrees), and one or more network address resources. Each vfiler is also allowed shared access to a file system resource of a storage operating system. To ensure controlled access to the allocated and shared resources, each vfiler is further assigned its own security domain for each access protocol. A vfiler boundary check is performed by the file system to verify that a current vfiler is allowed to access certain storage resources for a requested file stored on the filer platform.