Patent ID: 9703714
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by a system management control module, access rights for input/output operations of a host to a logical storage unit, the host communicatively coupled to the logical storage unit; receiving, by the system management control module, a desired caching policy for locally caching data associated with the logical storage unit and the host; determining, by the system management control module, an allowable caching policy indicator for the logical storage unit based on the access rights of the host to the logical storage unit, the determination comprising: setting, by the system management control module, a caching policy for data associated with input/output operations between the host and the logical storage unit, based on at least one of the desired caching policy and the allowable caching policy indicator; and communicating the caching policy to the host.