Patent ID: 8495067
Filing Date: 2013-07-23
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of partitioning management of a plurality of storage resources in a computing storage environment across a plurality of users by a processor device, comprising: assigning a resource group attribute to a storage resource object representing at least one of the plurality of storage resources, wherein the resource group attribute includes a selectable value indicating a resource group object to which the storage resource object is associated; providing a resource group label in the resource group object, the resource group label being a string having no wildcards; assigning a user resource scope to a user ID, wherein a value of the user resource scope provides a mechanism to match to the resource group label, the user resource scope being a pattern of a string adapted to include wildcards for comparison to the resource group label to determine a match between the user resource scope and the resource group label, whereupon the user ID is authorized to perform one of creating, deleting, modifying, controlling, and managing storage resources with an association to a resource group in the plurality of storage resources; designating at least one of the plurality of users as an administrator having authorization to perform actions to configure the plurality of storage resources and activating an enforcement of a plurality of resource group policies and limiting a scope of access of at least one of the plurality of users; creating the resource group, wherein at least one of the resource group label being assigned to the resource group; modifying the resource group, wherein a plurality of policy attributes are changed in the resource group; deleting the resource group not being associated with at least one of the plurality of storage resources; changing the association of the at least one of the plurality of storage resources to the resource group; performing at least one of assigning and modifying the user resource scope on a non-administrative user IDs; and performing at least one of enabling and disabling the creation of a plurality of objects in a default resource group.