Patent ID: 9612851
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A method for deploying a data-path-related plug-in for a logical storage entity of a storage system, the method comprising: deploying said data-path-related plug-in for said logical storage entity, wherein said deploying includes creating a plug-in inclusive data-path specification and wherein said plug-in inclusive data-path specification includes operation of the data-path-related plug-in; creating a verification data-path specification, wherein said verification data-path specification does not include operation of the data-path-related plug-in and wherein a task executed in a verification data-path, having said verification data-path specification, generates verification data that enables validation of given data generated by said task being executed in a plug-in inclusive data-path having said plug-in inclusive data-path specification; executing a given task on said plug-in inclusive data-path and on said verification data-path, giving rise to said given data and to said verification data; verifying said given data using said verification data; and if said verifying failed, performing one or more failure actions, wherein said one or more failure actions include one or more of the following actions: