Patent ID: 9547429
Date: 2017-01-17
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method comprising: displaying a listing of a plurality of registered Storage Area Networks (SANs) in a first portion of a display and a listing of a plurality of hosts in a second portion of the display, the first portion of the display not including a listing of a host therein and the second portion of the display not including a listing of a SAN therein; placing a graphical representation of a plurality of available SANs in a third portion of the display in response to receiving a selection of the plurality of available SANs from the listing of the plurality of registered SANs in the first portion of the display; placing a graphical representation of a plurality of available hosts in the third portion of the display in response to receiving a selection of the plurality of available hosts from the listing of the plurality of managed hosts in the second portion of the display; repeatedly identifying a dragging and dropping of the graphical representation of a selected SAN that is graphically represented in the third portion of the display onto the graphical representation of a selected host that is graphically represented in the third portion of the display, the repeatedly identifying a dragging and dropping being analyzed to define one-to-many relationships among one of the selected SANs and a plurality of the selected hosts and among one of the selected hosts and a plurality of the selected SANs; displaying a plurality of graphical links connecting the graphical representations of the plurality of available SANs and the plurality of available hosts in response to the repeatedly identifying a dragging and dropping, a position of the plurality of graphical links identifying the one-to-many relationships among the one of the selected SANs and the plurality of the selected hosts and among the one of the selected hosts and the plurality of the selected SANs; provisioning storage from the selected SANs of the plurality of available SANs that are graphically represented in the third portion of the display to all selected hosts of the plurality of available hosts that are graphically represented in the third portion of the display, based on the one-to-many relationships among the one of the selected SANs and the plurality of the selected hosts and among the one of the selected hosts and the plurality of the selected SANs in response to receiving a selection to provision all; and changing an appearance of the plurality of graphical links connecting the graphical representations of the plurality of available SANs and the plurality of available hosts in response to the provisioning being successful, wherein the first, second and third portions of the display are nonoverlapping.