Patent ID: 7231503
Filing Date: 2007-06-12
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. In a storage system comprising a first storage area and a second storage area, a method of managing access to the first and second storage areas comprising: at a time T, performing communication between a first port of the storage system and at least one first device over a first network, the first port configured to perform I/O operations with the first storage area to service I/O requests received from the at least one first device, wherein the first port is associated with first configuration information; at time T, performing communication between a second port of the storage system and at least one second device over a second network, the second port configured to perform I/O operations with the second storage area to service I/O requests received from the at least one second device, wherein the second port is associated with second configuration information, wherein the first port is not in data communication with the second device associated with the second storage area and the second port is not in data communication with the first device associated with the first storage area; and subsequent to time T, performing: