Patent ID: 7657705
Filing Date: 2010-02-02
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: providing a management application with at least one of a firmware information of a RAID controller and system information of a particular set of physical disks forming a particular underlying RAID implementation that is relevant to creating a configuration on the RAID controller of the particular underlying RAID implementation, wherein the management application configures the RAID controller of at least one physical disk forming any RAID implementation without prior knowledge of firmware information of the RAID controller and system information of the at least one physical disk forming the any RAID implementation; determining the configuration of the particular underlying RAID implementation using a decision making process of the management application based on at least one of the firmware information of the RAID controller and system information of the particular set of physical disks forming the particular underlying RAID implementation to determine the configuration of the particular underlying RAID implementation, and determining validity of selected parameters of the management application to create the configuration of the particular underlying RAID implementation and creating the configuration of the particular set of underlying physical disks forming the particular underlying RAID implementation through the RAID controller that is communicatively coupled to a host computer.