Patent ID: 9658897
Date: 2017-05-23
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A computer program product for assigning a set of network names to storage access paths of virtual machines accessing storage resources via storage area networks, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having stored thereon: first program instructions programmed to create a computer system cluster, wherein the computer system cluster includes: second program instructions programmed to identify a maximum number of storage access paths that a virtual machine is able to use on any of the plurality of servers; third program instructions programmed to selectively deploy the plurality of virtual machines on the plurality of servers; for each virtual machine of the plurality of virtual machines deployed on the plurality of servers: fifth program instructions programmed to select a maximum number of concurrent live-migrations between the plurality of virtual machines; sixth program instructions programmed to generate a plurality of target port names, wherein a quantity of the plurality of target port names is based on the product of: seventh program instructions programmed to store the plurality of target port names in a port name pool.